Liu Rong's investment in Lighthouse Country was obviously much smoother than Lin Guiyi's, and he bought Luke Cinemas with almost no resistance.

After all, Lin Guiyi represents the Shuangmu Group. For such a large group, the people in the Lighthouse Country are also on guard against him.

Lin Guiyi went through several levels of agents and sponsored a lot of election donations, and then he bypassed their vigilance and won a theater chain.

But Liu Rong is different. A slut and a rich man buy movie theaters like toys. I bet he can't afford to make any extravagance.

In fact, Luke Cinemas bought it much cheaper than Liu Rong expected, totaling less than one billion dollars.

After some confidential departments, such as finance and personnel, had arranged the personnel borrowed from Tomahawk Entertainment, Liu Rong boarded the plane back to China with Assistant Xu.

It was impossible for him to operate behind the scenes by himself. He had now figured out that he couldn't do such serious management work.

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Compared to Liu Rong, Han Lan is much busier now.

Wang Shenzhi's team has already drafted the script for "Stretching the Thread", and Han Lan really didn't expect that they would actually turn this MV into a movie.

Under the original main plot, many original plots have been added. Looking at the entire script, Han Lan's face is calm, but inside she is panicked.

Because he couldn't find a similar film, TV series or even work in his memory!

How does this make him feel?

Without any successful experience, Han Lan had no confidence that their film would be popular after it was completed and released.

"Han Lan? How are you?" Wang Shenzhi looked at him expectantly.

"Em...change it again?"

Wang Shenzhi was silent for a moment and nodded slightly: "It is true that there are still many problems. Do you have any suggestions?"

"..." Han Lan.

Can I say no?

Of course, you definitely can't say that in front of your face.

Han Lan recalled the Pili Puppet Show that she had heard about in her previous life. Although she had never seen it, she knew it was a martial arts film and could even be called a fantasy.

The reasons are actually easy to understand. After all, the shortcomings of the puppet show's expressions are there. We should use our strengths to avoid weaknesses, so we can only shoot as large-scale movements as possible, and even use some special effects to cover up the shortcomings.

But if you follow the first version of the script given by Wang Shenzhi, a large part of it is literary drama. Literary drama means there are a lot of dialogues and a lot of close-ups of expressions, which makes it easier to show the shortcomings of the puppets' expressions.

Although the current expression of the string puppet can be opened and closed, it is obviously impossible to make a rich expression like a real person.

According to the solution provided by Wang Shenzhi, he is to prepare a few more puppet heads, draw specific expressions, and use them to replace when shooting close-ups. Regardless of the cost, this method still cannot solve the problem of stiff expressions.

Treating the symptoms rather than the root cause.

For example, if you occasionally take a close-up of a puppet's tearful expression, you can use a pre-drawn puppet head to replace it. But what if you want to film the process of crying with joy? It is impossible to prepare a puppet head in one frame and follow the method of drawing animation by others.

Do you want to create the effect of puppet expression changes? The movie has 24 frames per second. How many heads do you need to prepare to shoot a movie?

Therefore, in movies, you must try to avoid long shots to shoot close-ups of expressions, especially shots where facial expressions change a lot.

The best solution is to watch the whole process like in a kung fu movie.

Han Lan organized her words a little and told Wang Shenzhi her thoughts.

Wang Shenzhi nodded in agreement after hearing this: "If it is mainly about fighting scenes, then the theme of "Silk String Drama" cannot be used. After all, we cannot add too many fighting scenes."

"Then let's change it to another one. There are many themes, and it doesn't necessarily have to be a forced adaptation of "The Thread String Opera"."

Wang Shenzhi sighed softly and said: "I also want to reduce some risks as much as possible. No one has filmed the subject of string puppet show so far, and the risk is very high. Because "Puppet Show" has become popular, if we can make it

If it is made into a movie, I believe many fans will like it."

"It's not impossible to capitalize on the popularity of "Silk Opera". It doesn't have to be a direct adaptation. You can inherit its cosmology and create a new work." Han Lan said with a smile.

Wang Shenzhi followed his train of thought and fell into deep thought, then said: "Han Lan, actually I have always been curious, where did the copywriting of "Silk String Opera" come from?"

"Copywriter? What's wrong?"

"The style of the whole story is actually very similar to that of an ancient book, but I didn't find this story in it."

"Ancient books?"

"An ancient book that few people know about, but I think you should have heard of it - Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio." Wang Shenzhi said.

Han Lan was stunned for a moment, and then realized that there was actually "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio" in this world? In other words, it seemed that many ancient works had it, but there were deviations in modern times.

"Han Lan?" Wang Shenzhi called out again when he saw that he was distracted.

Only then did Han Lan react and explained with a smile: "Oh, I did imitate the style of "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio"."

Wang Shenzhi's face showed surprise.

Han Lan was reminded by him and thought: "Director Wang, do you still remember the young man in the story who listened to the old man telling stories?"

"oh?"

"We can use him as the protagonist and adapt a story from "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio"."

Wang Shenzhi nodded slightly: "I also have this idea, but there are many stories in it..."

"Use A Chinese Ghost Story." Han Lan said calmly.

"A Chinese Ghost Story?" Wang Shenyi didn't react for a moment and looked at Han Lan in confusion.

Han Lan turned on her phone and searched, but found that she couldn't find any relevant entries.

By the way, the idea of ​​"A Chinese Ghost Story" seems to have come about after it was adapted into a film and television drama. However, film and television dramas in this world are too heavily influenced by the West, and their exploration of traditional things is very limited. No one has made a stand-alone story yet. It is like a Kung Fu movie.

Before he excavated, he had been calm and calm.

In "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio", should this story be called "Nie Xiaoqian"?

Han Lan tried to search for "Nie Xiaoqian" again, and sure enough, she found it. She handed him the original classical Chinese work to read, and explained without blushing: "A Chinese Ghost Story was something I suddenly thought of just now. We can use Nie Xiaoqian as the author."

One article will be adapted. Ning Caichen, yes, that’s him, he is the boy who listens to the old man telling stories in "The Thread String Opera"."

"Is this okay?"

"Of course! That boy has been able to see things that others can't see since he was a child. He is destined to have a different fate from others. It makes sense to meet Nie Xiaoqian! Right? There happens to be Yan Chixia in there, so he will do the martial arts.

I took the responsibility. I fought with the old fox and the tree demon. There were many fighting scenes that could be filmed. I also added flying swords, various talismans, golden lights, and all kinds of magic special effects. The effect would definitely be amazing.

Too bad! By the way, the most important thing is that the vixens in it, especially Nie Xiaoqian, should be made more beautiful and seductive. They should be enchanting and charming enough to make men blush, heartbeat, and nosebleeds! Anyway,

It’s a puppet, and its appearance and figure are both very high. Isn’t this difficult?”

"No...no." Wang Shenzhi took a small notebook to write down, feeling that he could not keep up with Han Lan's jumping thoughts.

Isn’t the protagonist Ning Caichen?

Why is there suddenly a focus on portraying Nie Xiaoqian?

Wait, what does this have to do with "Silk String Opera"?
Chapter completed!