After returning home and finishing their meal in a hurry, under Liu Xiaoli's smiling eyes, Chu Xuan and Qian Qian began to read the script and started their work.
A script of nearly a million words cannot be read in a short time, but with this passion, you can concentrate on doing one thing and immerse yourself in it without external interruptions. The efficiency of doing things will naturally be doubled compared to usual.
improvement.
Witnessed by Wang Jinhua and Liu Xiaoli, Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei started their "student dominance" mode on the day they received the script.
While at the company, the two of them read and discussed the script all day long.
When at home, the two of them would sit quietly on the sofa and read, occasionally chatting happily.
Here, Wang Jinhua at the company and Liu Xiaoli at home smiled slightly every time they saw them in this state, with some warmth and appreciation in their smiles.
During this period, under the leadership of Chu Xuan, Liu Yifei followed him to Xinhua Bookstore and bought two small books, which helped to broaden her ideas and vision of Xianxia.
"Experience the literary world and educate yourself."
"Stimulate philosophical thinking and improve connotation."
"worth having."
When she heard Chu Xuan's funny words in an advertisement, Liu Yifei showed off her beauty and was so happy that she and Chu Xuan immersed themselves in the ocean of the literary world and never tired of it.
As the saying goes, love what you do.
Two people whose main job is to be actors may not even know whether they really love the production industry right now.
But a few months ago, the crew of "The Condor"——
"In the future, you will be the producer and I will be the director, and we will make movies and TV series together."
"OK!"
Perhaps it was because of this casual conversation that they cultivated their love and yearning for a better future.
As far as Chu Xuan is concerned, because you love it, I love it.
As for Liu Yifei, because you yearn for it, I yearn for it.
Maybe the two of them themselves don't know what's going on, but deep in their hearts they love their true feelings at this time and their respective good hopes for the future, as well as their current efforts, are mutually supporting that all this is happening quietly.
Perhaps as long as the relationship between the two of them does not diminish, the faith-like belief that they love each other will become the eternal driving force for them to move forward and the passion that will never disappear.
——August 20th.
The afterglow of the setting sun has just dissipated, and it has just fallen into the night.
In the living room, the light is bright.
On the sofa, Liu Yifei sat cross-legged, with a small stack of scripts placed on her knees, and another stack of scripts and materials placed on the sofa beside her. Her hair was parted in the middle and fell down from her shoulders, black and smooth.
“I really want to add a plot to Baguio.”
After reading books with Chu Xuan for so many days, I have finished reading the script of "Zhu Xian".
After being immersed in it for many days, the people and things in the script are naturally fresh in my memory, and I can't help but feel emotional.
"Baguio is a supporting character. To add a plot to this character is to put the cart before the horse."
Chu Xuan was sitting next to Liu Yifei, wearing the black and white pajamas and pajamas that Liu Yifei had to buy for him. His right foot was propped up on the sofa and his left leg was stretched out normally.
In the script setting, Baguio is the supporting actress and Lu Xueqi is the heroine.
Adding more drama to the female supporting role while ignoring the heroine will have a very serious impact. Maybe the heroine and the female supporting character will collapse, and perhaps other related characters will also go astray.
Liu Yifei also knew about this, she was just talking about it.
"Now let's start deleting the plot? We need to delete ten episodes."
Liu Yifei turned half around, sitting cross-legged and facing Chu Xuan, holding the script in her hand.
Just when Chu Xuan was about to speak, Liu Yifei pulled him and said: "Face me."
"What?" Chu Xuan was stunned for a moment.
"Looking at me squarely during the communication is the minimum form of respect." Liu Yifei said in an educational tone.
On the single sofa on the right side of the coffee table, Liu Xiaoli looked down at the decoration information.
Hearing Sissi's words, she burst into laughter, raised her eyebrows and looked at Sissi, and chuckled a little.
Liu Yifei turned to look at her mother, with a smile in her eyes, "Mom, am I right?"
Liu Xiaoli nodded slightly and said: "You are right."
Chu Xuan on the sofa turned halfway and sat cross-legged like Liu Yifei.
"Is this okay?" He couldn't help laughing.
Liu Yifei flipped the hair on her left ear and nodded playfully twice.
"Let's get started." She shook her head slightly.
"How do you think the plot should be deleted? What should the rhythm of the story be? If we don't find a commonly recognized rhythm benchmark, then we can only look for useless plots aimlessly. The problem is that we don't know which plots are useless.
There is no bottom for the support, and it may be deleted incorrectly." Chu Xuan looked at her and said.
For these two actors, when they read literary scripts in the past, they basically only looked at the plots related to the characters they played, and understood the connotations and the rhythm of plot development.
Now when working as a producer, they need to step out of the characters and control the rhythm of the story world. This requires changing their views and thoughts on different things.
"Then let's start from the beginning." Liu Yifei picked up the script and shook it.
Chu Xuan raised his eyebrows and motioned for her to continue.
Liu Yifei blinked, "First of all, "Zhu Xian" tells a story about a fairy."
"Nonsense." Suddenly, Liu Xiaoli's voice floated from the side.
Hearing this, Chu Xuan couldn't help laughing and was overjoyed.
Liu Yifei turned to look at her mother, and said angrily and with laughter: "Mom! Please don't disturb us, okay?"
Liu Xiaoli lowered her head to read the information and raised her eyes, smiling happily: "Mom is wrong, you continue."
Liu Yifei turned around and saw that Chu Xuan was still smiling. She took the script in her backhand and filmed Chu Xuan.
"Is it wrong that "Zhu Xian" is a fairy tale type movie?"
"That's right, keep going, I was made laugh by my aunt."
Hearing these words, Liu Xiaoli raised her eyebrows and glanced at Chu Xuan. Chu Xuan's face was filled with the afterglow of laughter, and he and Liu Xiaoli looked at each other happily.
"The genre film is Xianxia, so what is the theme element? Love?" Liu Yifei said sternly.
Seeing Liu Yifei's serious attitude, Chu Xuan calmed down and became serious with her.
"Do you think it's appropriate to use love as the theme element of "Zhu Xian"?" he asked.
"I think it's appropriate." Liu Yifei nodded, "Zhang Xiaofan is like Li Xiaoyao, Lu Xueqi is like Zhao Linger, and Baguio is like Lin Yueru. If the plot revolves around this love triangle, according to the plot development model of "Sword and Fairy", "Zhu Xian"
There will also be a market.”
"Hey, can you still analyze the market?" Liu Xiaoli said with a smile.
Liu Yifei turned to look at her mother with a smile on her face, "I discuss with the teachers at the company every day. I learn much faster than at school."
The next moment, she wrinkled her nose mischievously and said, "Mom, look at your information."
Liu Xiaoli raised her eyebrows slightly, looked at her, and signaled her to continue.
"Zhu Xian" is different from "Sword of Immortals". "Zhu Xian" is a classical fairy tale. The emotional lines of the characters are in line with the customs of ancient Chinese feudal culture, which is implicit." Chu Xuan expressed his understanding of "Zhu Xian".
"Implicit." Liu Yifei lowered her eyebrows and thought for a moment, then nodded: "Indeed, there is no dog food in the script of "Zhu Xian", and there is not such passionate love. The love triangle between Zhang Xiaofan, Lu Xueqi and Baguio is more about respecting each other as guests,
There are no words of love, and it stops at embracing each other, but the love is unforgettable, which is very different from "Sword and Fairy"."
"But." Liu Yifei looked directly at Chu Xuan and suggested: "We can add more, delete the irrelevant plots, and add some emotional dramas to them."
Chu Xuan raised his lips slightly and said, "Do you want to make "Zhu Xian" into an idol drama?"
"No?" Liu Yifei asked with a little doubt.
Chu Xuan's somewhat objectionable tone made her think again.
After listening to and participating in discussions with teachers every day in the company these days, she also has a little understanding of the current market.
Love is an eternal theme in literary creation, and it is also the creative standard against which many current dramas regard it as the first element.
As the saying goes: Men are like mountains and women are like water. Mountains and rivers depend on each other and will never be separated.
This is just like the "Immortal Sword" and "The Condor" filmed by her and Chu Xuan. The unforgettable love reflected in the plot of the separation and reunification of the male and female protagonists makes people feel sad and nostalgic. Watching the replay several times makes people sigh.
and tears.
Therefore, she believes that if the love elements of "Zhu Xian" are expanded and the plot is added to make it more sadistic, then "Zhu Xian" will also be very marketable.
"The love element of "Zhu Xian" is very good, but I think the essence of "Zhu Xian" is not love." Chu Xuan shook his head.
Liu Yifei raised her eyebrows, then smiled softly, "Teacher Chu, what do you think it is?"
Teacher Chu... Chu Xuan found it a little interesting, so he opened the first page of the script and read it.
"The first sentence of the story background of "Zhu Xian": The world is unkind and treats all things as stupid dogs."
"The unkindness of heaven and earth is the law of nature, and the law of nature is that the weak should eat the strong, so do you think the weak eating the strong is the essence of "Zhu Xian"?"
Liu Yifei quickly applied what she learned these days.
Chu Xuan nodded and said: "Yes. According to the story structure of the script, the main line of the current script is Zhang Xiaofan's growth path and Zhang Xiaofan's way of training his heart. I think this main line is very good. As for love, it is just Zhang Xiaofan's way of training his heart.
The fate you encounter on the road is not the main thing."
"This is one of them."
Chu Xuan paused for a moment, and saw Liu Yifei picking up paper and pen from the sofa at the back, looking at Chu Xuan Yanran and saying: "Teacher Chu, please continue."
Chu Xuan smiled slightly: "Going back to the previous topic, the world is unkind and treats all things as stupid dogs. You also said that this is the rule of nature, and nature will not interfere with the survival of living creatures. This also shows that God is fair and will not interfere with the survival of living things.
Do good to those who are noble, and do evil to those who are humble. However, people are born into high and low places, and this has been the case since ancient times."
"Since the distinction between high and low is high, how can it be fair?" Liu Yifei frowned while taking notes.
"Which one do you think is more difficult, Zhang Xiaofan, becoming a cultivator, or becoming a cultivator of a higher level?" Chu Xuan asked with a smile.
Liu Yifei was startled, raised her eyebrows and glanced at Chu Xuan, then lowered her head to think.
"The higher you go, the harder it gets." Liu Xiaoli dragged her face with her right hand and said with a smile.
After hearing her mother's words, Liu Yifei seemed to realize something, but she didn't fully understand it for the moment, so she frowned.
"Zhang Xiaofan wants to become a cultivator, or Dao Xuan wants to become an immortal, which one is more difficult?" Chu Xuan gave another example.
Hearing this, Liu Yifei blinked and said suddenly: "It's hard. I understand what you mean. Zhang Xiaofan has a humble status, while Dao Xuan has a noble status. But because of their different statuses, they pursue different things, but for them with different statuses
, the difficulty is the same. Just like ordinary people just want to make a hundred thousand yuan, people worth hundreds of millions want to make 10 billion."
Chu Xuan gave a thumbs up and said: "You understand it correctly. It is the same in our real world. Everyone pursues different material and spiritual lives, but the difficulty of advancement is based on consistency and equality."
Liu Yifei nodded, lowered her head and quickly took notes.
Chu Xuan continued: "Then substitute this understanding into "Zhu Xian". In the world of immortals and heroes where the weak eat the strong, everyone pursues different immortals and heroes. Then can we develop an idea and translate "Zhu Xian" into "Zhu Xian"
The immortals and heroes pursued by the characters appearing in it were all shot, and the pursuit of these characters was used to render the world view of "Zhu Xian" in a larger and more complete way, instead of just filming around Zhang Xiaofan, Lu Xueqi and Baguio.
."
Liu Yifei frowned slightly and thought about Chu Xuan's words. Everyone pursues different immortals and knights?
"What is Zhang Xiaofan's chivalry? As a member of Caomiao Village, is it chivalrous to be obsessed with finding out the truth about the massacre in Caomiao Village? Is it chivalrous to beat the savior to death without revealing the origin of the blood-thirsty beads? Is it chivalrous?
Is it considered chivalrous to decisively betray the Qingyun Sect and join the Ghost King Sect because Baguio died for him?"
Chu Xuan's words made Liu Yifei's eyes light up.
"Looking at it this way, Daoxuan's willingness to be backlashed by the Zhuxian Sword in order to protect the Qingyun Sect is considered chivalrous; Wan Jianyi's staying in seclusion in order to protect the Qingyun Sect's reputation is considered chivalrous; Lu Xueqi's heart is for Zhang Xiaofan, but the justice in her heart still allows her to stand
Even those on the Qingyun Sect’s side are chivalrous.”
"Cangsong was dissatisfied with Daoxuan because of Wan Jianyi's kindness and rebelled against Qingyun. In a sense, it was also chivalrous. In order to revive the glory of the Demon Sect, the Ghost King gathered people to attack Qingyun. It seemed also chivalrous. The Blood Refining Hall sought the holy object.
Bloodthirsty Beads, the starting point is correct, from this point of view it seems that it can be considered chivalrous."
Liu Yifei's eyebrows were pretty, and there was excitement on her face. She smiled slightly and said, "I understand your understanding. The characters in "Zhu Xian" are not divided into right and wrong, good and evil. All characters in it have things they protect and pursue.
This protected thing is the chivalry in "Zhu Xian"!"
Chu Xuan nodded, with a smile on his lips.
Liu Yifei's eyes moved a few times, and after thinking for a few moments, she put her hands on her hands and smiled: "So, what you mean is that "Zhu Xian" is not about love, but what all the characters pursue in this world of immortals.
Transformed by the changes that occur.”
"The transformation of characters is shown through the plot. In other words, each character has his own growth path. We filmed the growth path of all characters such as Zhang Xiaofan, Lin Jingyu, Zeng Shushu and so on through the plot. Then
The grand world view of "Zhu Xian" can be fully displayed."
Chu Xuan nodded and smiled: "If we film these, then I think "Zhu Xian" will surpass "The Legend of Shushan" and "Sword of Immortal" and become the foundation of the fairy tale drama in the glorious era.
It is also the first major work for the two of us."
A foundational work?
A masterpiece?
Liu Yifei's eyes were filled with excitement, "Then my thinking is clear. The main line of "Zhu Xian" will be based on Zhang Xiaofan's growth path. On this main line, the growth path of Lu Xueqi, Baguio, Lin Jingyu, Zeng Shushu and other characters will be slowed down.
The plot is slowly laid out so that all the characters gradually become fleshed out, and then the fairy tale world of "Zhu Xian" is presented to the audience through their perspectives."
Chu Xuan smiled broadly and said, "Do you agree with this concept?"
Liu Yifei nodded repeatedly and said: "I agree! In my inner world, I feel that all the characters in the world of "Zhu Xian" are alive."
"What about the love triangle you just mentioned?" Chu Xuan said suddenly.
Liu Yifei raised her eyebrows to look at him and said with a smile: "It can be used as an auxiliary line to intersperse it."
Chu Xuan smiled and said: "Now that we have the same ideas, what do you think should be done to delete the plot? How should we change the plot or add more plots?"
Liu Yifei smoothed her hair, opened the story structure book, took a few glances and said: "Delete all the plots that have nothing to do with the growth of the characters, such as the ambiguous scenes between Zeng Shushu and Lu Xueqi, the ambiguous scenes between Lin Jingyu and Baguio, Lin Jingyu
There is no need for these emotional dramas between Yu and Jin Ping'er. Change or add these plots to their growth plots to make the emotions and characters of these characters fuller."
After saying that, Liu Yifei looked up at Chu Xuan.
Chu Xuan raised a warm smile and stretched out his right hand, "It's exactly what I thought."
Hearing this, Liu Yifei looked happy and stretched out her right hand to give him a high-five.
"Now that Zhu Xian has the [Chivalry], what about the [Immortal]?"
"Sleep! Let's discuss it tomorrow." Liu Xiaoli put together the decoration materials, stood up and said in a parent's tone.
Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei looked at each other for a moment.
Liu Yifei turned around and said, "Mom, it's only 10 o'clock."
Liu Xiaoli shook her head, "You have been reading from day to night these days, so your eyes need to rest. Besides, going to bed early and getting up early is good for your health, so go and get some rest."
Chu Xuan raised his eyebrows, glanced at Liu Xiaoli, and muttered to Liu Yifei: "This is the majesty from heaven."
Heaven's way?...Liu Yifei was startled for a moment, then lay back and smiled on the sofa.
Liu Xiaoli glared at Chu Xuan and smiled angrily.
Chu Xuan glanced at her, got off the sofa and left, "Sleep."
Liu Yifei looked at the back of Chu Xuan walking away quickly and said with great joy: "Mom, you have been promoted from the female devil to the way of heaven."
Liu Xiaoli and her daughter looked at each other. The next moment, the mother and daughter burst out laughing, feeling full of fun.