Director’s Legend

Life after becoming the richest man is dull and boring. Every day there are invitations for various banquets, charity parties, celebrities gatherings or government invitation banquets. In this regard, Shao Shuaijun's general answer is that he needs to prepare a new script and has no time! Then continue to learn to fly a plane leisurely.

It was not until mid-November that North America Summit Entertainment held a quarterly summary meeting. Shao Shuaijun ended his teaching. Together with Li Xiuxiu who came to visit him, he boarded a newly delivered small passenger plane "BL901 Global Express" and flew to Los Angeles.

BL901 is a long-range high-speed commercial transport aircraft developed by Canada. It can carry only a dozen passengers, but it is enough to hold Shao Shuaijun and his party, including assistants and bodyguards, and it is very fast. According to Shao Shuaijun, the cabin has been changed to look like a small living room, with a bar, a kitchen, and a special small cinema, where you can eat and watch movies on the plane.

Shao Shuaijun has difficulty sleeping on transportation and does not want to waste time. He just happens to be able to watch movies.

The plane flew into the blue sky and white clouds. Li Xiuxiu and Zhang Huahua were talking about skin care products. Shao Shuaijun opened the movie theater and started watching movies.

"Thomas, you can't do this."

In the movie, Jack Gyllenhill held a gun and tremblingly aimed at the masked man who was carrying out the robbery in the alley ahead. He hesitated in his heart, holding the gun to pull the trigger but didn't dare, finally his eyes flashed and the gunfire sounded.

This is an excerpt from "The Nightman", Shao Shuaijun's first original film, and the only failed work, the product of a glorious appearance. After freezing the movie, Shao Shuaijun picked up a notebook on the table, opened it at will, and turned to a certain page with a detailed summary of the plot just now.

"Thomas's killing shots did not show strong inner conflicts. The crimes of the robbers did not express crimes concisely. The two were compared and the conflicts were not enough. Moreover, the shots were used too casually, and there was no specific rhythm to use. Fragmentary. It is recommended to add memories here and the shots flash by, so that the close-ups can be more fully integrated into the shots, not to isolate them."

Looking at the notebook, and then at the freeze frame, Shao Shuaijun thought with his chin resting on it. Thinking like this, he didn't know how many times he had done it in private.

"This little girl is very interesting, Sister Xiu, she was fascinated when she saw the blue eyes of the little boy. She was only a few years old at the time. Americans are in such early love, the little girl said to herself, she My first kiss is to be kept for the little boy." On the other side, the conversation between Li Xiuxiu and Zhang Huahua suddenly reached Shao Shuaijun’s ears.

"eye?"

Shao Shuaijun seemed to have thought of something and frowned. Thomas' eyes on the freeze-frame picture suddenly became bigger and bigger, and then all the pictures were reflected. Shao Shuaijun shook suddenly and filled with inspiration. He grabbed his pen and added another sentence in his notebook.

"Don’t remember the picture alone. Before Thomas shoots, add a close-up of Thomas’ eyes, and you can embed the picture of the memory on the pupil. Then the embedded picture becomes the reflection of the robber, so that the conflict will change immediately. Be subtle, without deliberately describing the respective behavior of the robber and Thomas."

Putting aside the pen, Shao Shuaijun seems to have conceived this picture in his mind, a very cool way of expression. Especially the eyeballs presented in IMAX mode are absolutely cool to the extreme, and there are many special effects painting methods to show emotional changes.

After thinking about it with satisfaction, Shao Shuaijun continued to watch other movie clips. "The Night Watcher" is his heart disease. For more than a year, he has not been able to really let go, constantly thinking about how to make the movie more perfect. "Nightman" is Shao Shuaijun's original idea. His original plan was to portray a superhero like a lonely hero.

But too superstitious about my own way of telling stories, too indulged in this kind of implicit camera show, but let the audience be incomprehensible and become a super bad movie. Christopher Nolan has successfully created the most epic dark superhero with "Spider-Man: The Dark Knight".

Shao Shuaijun couldn't bear to look straight. His Nightman was a joke compared to Batman. It made him feel like a throat, and he couldn't calm down if he couldn't swallow. Basically, most of his leisure time in private is occupied by "The Night Watcher". No matter how prosperous the other movies he has shot, he cannot fill the void in his heart.

After watching the movie for a while, Li Xiuxiu suddenly came over with a book: "Look at this book, it's very beautiful."

"What?" Shao Shuaijun picked up the book. On the cover it reads "FLIPPED". This English word means "flip, flip", and its usage is very complicated. It can describe things turned over, and it can also describe mood turned over. . But when Shao Shuaijun opened the content, he saw what it was talking about.

He knows that the title of this book is translated as "Puzzling".

The novel written by American writer Wendelin van Della Annan was later made into a film by Rob Reiner, the director of "Along with Me", which was about two years later. Because of insufficient publicity funds, the movie "Fantastic" failed to enter the mainstream theaters. It was only shown in dozens of theaters in North America and was drawn quickly, but it earned countless praise and praise.

"In the book, the two little girls and the little boy are very cute. The pure love between children, without any adult's troubles, carefree, simple likes and dislikes." Li Xiuxiu said excitedly. , And then scorned Shao Shuaijun, "If it is made into a movie, it will definitely look better than your "500 Days with Summer".

Shao Shuaijun scowled his eyebrows: "Who would watch two children play a house these days? This is a puppy love in China. We invested in the "Eight Knives" "Girls Chased Together in Those Years". It is estimated that it will take some twists and turns to be released in the mainland to encourage early love. It's strange that the radio and television broadcasts don't click."

"I said if you look good or not, why are you talking about puppy love, hum, Huahua said,

Is "FLIPPED" better than "500 Days with Summer"? "

"Of course "FLIPPED" is good-looking." Zhang Huahua did not hesitate to join the Li Xiuxiu camp. She has already seen that between Shao Shuaijun and Li Xiuxiu, it is obvious that Li Xiuxiu has a higher status and is more worthy of refuge.

Shao Shuaijun’s flat mouth: "I didn’t say that it’s not good-looking, two different types of pure love stories. "500 Days with Summer" talks about adults’ views on love, and "FLIPPED" talks about the shallowness between children. Shallow love, not even love, is just mutual affection. If you want to say pure love, "FLIPPED" must have won, but if you want to say true love, "500 Days with Summer" is obviously better than One chip."

"Speaking so bluntly, have you seen it?"

"Of course I have read it, don't doubt, I have read many books!" Shao Shuaijun said triumphantly, speaking of two lifetimes combined, he is in his 30s. In order to be a director in my previous life, I have studied books and movies many times more than the average person.

Zhang Huahua hopefully asked: "Boss, if you've seen it, why didn't you make it into a movie? What a great story, it must attract a large audience, maybe it's another "500 Days with Summer" that attracts so much money. It."

"Speaking of premature love?"

"What's wrong with puppies? I think this kind of puppies is more educational. The mutual recognition and love of Julie and Bryce is to set up a correct outlook on life for children? Like it, it’s great to like his connotation, what do you think Sister Xiu?"

Li Xiuxiu nodded: "Huahua is right."

"Let's talk about it." Shao Shuaijun waved his hand, left the book, and flipped through it casually.

Seeing that Shao Shuaijun didn't move, Li Xiuxiu and Zhang Huahua sat back with regret and started talking about skin care products again. After Shao Shuaijun turned over "FLIPED" for a while, he simply put the "Night Watcher" notebook and the "Hunger Games" script on the table, and looked at it again.

Soon, Shao Shuaijun put away the "Night Watcher" notebook. He didn't know what he thought. He studied "Night Watcher" every day, but "Night Watcher" was a thing of the past.

Looking at the remaining book and the script, Shao Shuaijun thought. To be honest, "The Hunger Games" is a commercial film. It is the same commercial film as "Twilight". Shao Shuaijun can direct or not direct. For him, "Twilight" is abandoned, and "The Hunger Games" is also It doesn't matter.

And "Pumped" is indeed a good movie, but it was not in his plan before, and the box office is also unknown.

But Li Xiuxiu likes this book and wants to make it into a movie.

Should I make money first, or should I please women first?

This is a problem.

Looking left and right, love prevailed in the end. Shao Shuaijun put away the script of "The Hunger Games": "Forget it, let's post "The Hunger Games" and shoot "Heartbeat" first." Make up his mind, Shao Shuaijun Immediately ask Zhang Huahua to contact Wendelin van Della Annan after getting off the plane to buy the copyright of "FLIPPED".

An unknown writer, a general novel that sells, is easy to buy.

"Oye, the boss is wise." Zhang Huahua laughed.

Li Xiuxiu also laughed, and then asked in a low voice, "Are you really planning to shoot? If you don't want to shoot, then just do it. Shooting "The Hunger Games" is also good. You have been preparing for a long time.

"For me, everything is fine. Anyway, the copyright is bought. I can shoot as soon as I want, right? The story of this "FLIPPED" is very simple, the scene is very simple, except for the little actors and actresses. Everything else is very simple, it can be done in a month or two without losing my time."

Shao Shuaijun smiled indifferently. 2008 has come to the end of November, and the time is getting closer and closer to 2013. The first profitable movies he can shoot are all through screenwriting, acquisitions or directing himself, and they are paid under his command. The remaining few novels are adapted. The film, also purchased the right to adapt the film, can be shot at any time.

Therefore, time does not seem to be that important to him.

It only takes a few minutes of thinking to decide what to shoot, but it takes a lot of time to prepare for the shoot. Before the copyright was bought, Shao Shuaijun had no plans to adapt the script. After getting off the plane, I rushed to the villa in Santa Monica and took a day off. Li Xiuxiu will have a meeting tomorrow. As for Shao Shuaijun, you can go and listen to it or not. Anyway, he rarely takes care of things and the company is on the right track. It doesn't matter whether he has him or not.

Zhang Huahua moved quickly, and after contacting Deline van de la Annan above, he bought the copyright of "Heartbeat" at a not high price. Wendelin is very happy to be able to cooperate with Shao Shuaijun, but she has one request, that is, she hopes to be the screenwriter of the film, and try to adapt the script to be more original.

Shao Shuaijun agreed that Wendelin is not only a writer, but also a screenwriter. She works in a TV station, and with her joining the crew, the adaptation of the movie will be easier and more suitable for the original. Wendelin is nothing more than making suggestions. The power of how to shoot lies in the hands of Shao Shuaijun.

Originally, the casting director and producer, Shao Shuaijun still chose Mitchell Bruce, but now Summit Entertainment is preparing to go public, Mitchell has no spare time to serve. Fortunately, Pinnacle Entertainment is a big business. As the casting director of "Twilight", Luis Leinard will serve Shao Shuaijun and help the crew of "Twilight" choose roles.

"Puzzling" tells a very innocent and simple story.

Bryce Roski moved to the town with his parents, and the second-year Julie Baker saw Bryce's blue eyes, her heart was hit by him, and her heart moved. She wanted to get close to Bryce, but Bryce didn't feel about her, on the contrary, she hated her a little bit.

Because Julie likes to raise chickens, and also likes to sit on the plane tree to watch the scenery, which makes Bryce quite confused, how can girls regard these as fun?

The big tree hinders others from building a house and wants to cut down the tree. Julie swears to defend the big tree and hopes Bryce will defend it with her. Bryce did not understand Julie's approach and did not help her. When the tree was cut down, Julie was very sad and did not go to school with Bryce on the school bus.

Later, Julie won the first place in the science and technology exhibition with the chicken hatch project, which eclipsed Bryce. Later, she raised the chicks and gave the eggs laid to the Bryce family. The Bryce family disliked Julie's dirty home and suspected that the eggs were unhygienic, so Bryce threw them away.

This made Julie even more sad, and she began to feel that Bryce's blue eyes might be as hollow as his own. She was no longer impulsive for Bryce, she looked at herself, and gave up the so-called "love" for dignity. She sticks to her life and doesn't think poverty has anything worthy of inferiority.

By the eighth grade, Bryce gradually became aware of Julie's unusualness. She liked to sit on the tree because it made her see the scenery farther away. She raised chickens because it allowed her to subsidize the family. Her pride in her family makes her attractive. Bryce started to like Julie.

He said to his friend that his friend laughed at him and also laughed at Julie's uncle with cerebral palsy. Bryce reluctantly echoed his friend a few words, and all this happened to be heard by Julie. He was very upset, but he didn't know what to do. He saw Julie joking with others, and he wanted to kiss her.

Julie ran away and didn't see him again.

Bryce regretted that he decided to plant a sycamore tree in the courtyard of Julie's house... (To be continued. Please search Piaotian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!)