Chapter 192 The water is very deep
Michael Clayton, the author of the novel "Jurassic Park", is one of the most famous best-selling writers in the United States and a very famous film and television screenwriter, director and producer.
In the history of American film and television, there are three writers who are the most powerful.
The first one is Michael Clayton, and then Stephen King is comparable to him, and Dan Brown is slightly inferior.
Needless to say, Clayton is enough to make him famous in history.
Stephen King is also extremely powerful. "The Shawshank Redemption" is one of his representative works, but many Chinese people don't know that this master, who is famous for his horror and suspense, is like Michael Clayton, almost every novel is adapted into a movie, and it is very popular.
Dan Brown, the third place, has not written many novels, but novels such as "The Da Vinci Code", "The Angels and the Devil" are also very popular. The movie adapted by Tom Hanks is also well received and has both fame and fortune.
As for Stephanie Mell, the author of Twilight, Susan Collins, the author of The Hunger Games, Ronnie Carros, the author of The Divergent, James Dashner, the author of The Moving Maze, etc., their influence is still worse than the three above.
Because it is not just the excitement of the movie, but just the novel, the three authors above are unparalleled masters.
Yin Jun will watch and think about the movies he particularly likes.
If this movie has an original novel, Yin Jun will also look for it.
Not only the Chinese translation version, but also the English version Yin Jun would read it, although he often did not deeply understand the charm of English writing.
Take this "Jurassic Park" for example.
Many people's eyes were definitely lit up when they watched Spielberg's "Jurassic Park" filmed by Spielberg, and it was a magical film.
But many of them don’t know that in fact, the novel “Jurassic Park” is much more exciting than the movie.
The entire three novels "Jurassic Park" and "Jurassic World" are only about 10%, and there are a lot of adaptations and additions.
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 first three "Jurassic Park" were adapted by Michael Clayton himself, so they are all very good.
Especially in the first episode, many of the people who had never seen these big guys screamed and watched it. After they came out, they basically turned back to the cinema, continued to scream, and continued to enjoy the enjoyment brought by the movie.
The novel "Jurassic Park" contains a lot of knowledge, and it is not something you can write with just such ideas.
For example, the dinosaurs you see in movies, except for a few highly aggressive dinosaurs such as Tyrannosaurus Rex, most of them only have an appearance.
But in the book, Michael Clayton described the appearance, personality, living habits, etc. of the 15 types of dinosaurs very carefully. Basically, if you understand it, you can become a dinosaur expert.
In addition to dinosaurs, "Jurassic Park" also involves very detailed knowledge in biotechnology, engineering, medicine, information systems, etc. If you have studied it for three or seven or eight years, you can't use this knowledge so easily, and it is so perfectly expressed in the book.
Such an excellent book...
Yin Jun couldn't write it.
The reason is very simple.
He simply doesn't have that much knowledge reserve.
Even if he has read the book, he cannot perfectly restore the details. Even if he can write it well, he only has about 60% of his skills. This makes him feel a bit regretful that he will not be able to become a dog.
Another point is that Yin Jun actually doesn't want to write the original work in such detail.
Because the original work actually contains a lot of bloody and horrifying content, and reading books is OK. If it is placed in a movie, you will never think of it being released no matter where it is.
Yin Jun doesn't like these too bloody and horrible content, so he simply adapted it into a novel according to the old rules.
Although this is much weaker to the level of excitement, it is still a smooth story and it is definitely not difficult to write.
Besides, what Yin Jun wants is not a good best-selling novel. As long as he can hold the copyright of this novel and the movie in his hands, it doesn’t matter whether it makes money by publishing or not.
Compared to the little profits of publishing, the profits of the movie are so generous.
"Jurassic Park" is the world's first super blockbuster to exceed $1 billion in box office!
Publishing novels is an easy thing to do in Xiangjiang.
However, Yin Jun did not think about publishing in Xiangjiang, but was able to ensure his rights and interests well.
This publishing industry is not as simple as people think.
It’s not Yin Jun who said, you should publish it for me. My book will definitely be a best-seller. If it really doesn’t work, I will get 3% of the royalties, or even if I don’t... and the publisher will publish it for you.
The publisher first has an evaluation mechanism to discuss whether your book can be published, how much benefits will be after publication, and whether it is worth their operation.
Then, the publishing house is not a good person either.
Whether in the UK or the US, there are not only one or two writers who have been cheated by publishing houses.
Because many people do not attach importance to copyright protection, they let the publisher take the manuscript in vain and publish it in another name, which suffered heavy losses.
In the end, due to insufficient evidence, the authors could not even get their salary.
There are not too many such examples before and after.
As long as you are a businessman, it is all for 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 wings and will not do so excessively, but there is a certain guarantee.
In addition, well-known writers will also be treated preferentially, and no one dares to bully them.
But Yin Jun absolutely cannot put his hope on others. He wants to control his destiny by himself, especially when he knows how much benefit these copyrights will bring.
Yin Jun knows how to protect his copyright. He has discussed many routines in the future online world.
This is in terms of publishing and translation, Yin Jun also has to find good people.
There is no shortage of English talents in Hong Kong, and it can be said that there are even more than Singapore.
But if you find an unreliable person to help translate "Jurassic Park" and then take the novel as your own and publish it, it is not impossible.
It’s not that Yin Jun is thinking too dark, but that 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 wrote it himself...
Let’s forget it!
I heard that his English is not a problem now, but he knows nothing about writing style, format, rhythm, terms, etc.
After the translation was completed, Yin Jun modified and improved the dialogues with the movie version. He asked Yin Jun to write all the content himself, and no publishing house would be willing to publish it.
Yin Jun is not in a hurry now, because Michael Clayton will not publish "Jurassic Park" in about 1990, and his creation time should be 1985 years later, and it is only 1978 years now. He must not have enough ideas to write this novel.
However, another trump card for winning the prize, "Shawshank's Redemption", made Yin Jun hesitate at the beginning.
As Stephen King's famous novella, this novel containing the subtitle of "Hope of Spring" will be compiled and published around 1982.
Maybe Stephen King is now beginning to conceive or write.
Because this collection of novels contains four stories, spring, summer, autumn and winter. Stephen King wrote them casually and wrote them for several years.
Yin Jun rewrites "The Shawshank Redemption", which is completely inferior to Stephen King in terms of writing style and profound meaning. If the novel is published, it is completely inferior to Stephen King.
If Stephen King had already written "The Shawshank Redemption", the fun would be great.
In this place of the United States, it is obvious who the American people, newspapers and courts support.
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 is willing to cooperate with an infamous plagiarist? Who is willing to watch the movies he made?
It was precisely for this reason that Yin Jun decided not to write "The Shawshank Redemption" but instead wrote novels that were more postponed.
The famous European and American novels are actually just about the dozen or twenty. Yin Jun happened to have read and read them all.
Fortunately, most of them are works from the 1990s, and Yin Jun still has plenty of time to write them all.
Like "Jurassic Park", these novels do not require a good sales volume. As long as they can be published smoothly and gain copyright rights, it will be the greatest success.
However, Yin Jun doesn't have to write all these novels. Like the script, Yin Jun writes the main content and lets some writers fill in and expand them, so that they can get some of the novel benefits. This is also a very feasible cooperation method.
There are also novels that Yin Jun cannot write, such as the most classic Western fantasy novel in history, "The Lord of the Rings", which requires you to buy them.
According to Yin Jun's knowledge, the copyright of "Lord of the Rings" is very complicated, and there will be several protracted court lawsuits around it in the future.
Chapter completed!