Chapter 196 Biochemical apocalypse! (Seeking the moon
One of the things that makes Hollywood successful is "punishing evil and promoting good": kind people will definitely live a happy life in the end, while evil people will suffer an extremely harsh and tragic ending even because of a little bad thing.
And this biochemical apocalypse is a very cruel competition for survival, a world where human lives are as worthless as grass and moral decay. It is natural that there will be many bad people in it.
In order to cater to the audience, the protagonist must be a 'good guy' who opposes the 'bad guy'.
How to define this ‘good person’?
What should he use to show his ‘goodness’?
At this moment, the doorbell of the villa rang.
"Who came so early?"
"Woof woof woof~" the fat, round pug 'Xiao Ha' left by the old professor barked.
Wang Shang got up and went out to take a look, but before he could figure out who it was, he heard a cry: "A Shang, it's really hard to find you here!" Wang Shang recognized who the voice was and walked in to see, sure enough,
It’s King Liu Tian.
Wang Shang smiled and came in: "Brother Hua, why are you so early?"
When the pug Xiao Ha saw Wang Shang welcoming the stranger in, he seemed a little unhappy. Then he moved his right hind leg and urinated on Liu Tianwang's shiny leather shoes~~
Liu Tianwang: "..."
Wang Shang was embarrassed and was about to kick him, but he cleverly ran away. When he turned around, he barked at Liu Tianwang proudly.
Wang Shang apologized quickly: "I'm sorry, this guy treats newcomers like this. I've been peed on before, and I'm used to it."
"..." Liu Tianwang was embarrassed.
At this time, the Queen Mother came out with a plate of fruit and scratched Xiao Ha intimately. She made Xiao Ha feel comfortable and squinted her eyes. When she saw King Liu Tian, she warmly greeted him: "You are
Hua Zai, right? Welcome, welcome!!”
After Liu Tianwang changed into a pair of shoes and a pair of trousers, and after taking a tour around the villa, he began to formally discuss the script with Wang Shang.
The reason Liu Tianwang came this time was because Wang Shang invited him to discuss the script. He had strong confidence in the script, so he naturally turned down other work and hurried over.
He can't wait to see this movie script come to life.
At this moment, he was more excited than ever. Even the winner of the Hong Kong Film Awards had never been so excited before.
In his opinion, this will be a movie that can help him open the door to Hollywood. A movie that can help him reach a higher stage. Although he was a little angry at first because of the "Iron Man" incident,
Now, there is no more, but more thanks.
"Mayan prophecy? 2012?" Liu Tianwang was a little confused after reading the beginning.
"Yes, the end of the world is coming. I need to give it a reason for its arrival, and I don't want the end of the world to appear out of thin air. So I thought of the ancient and mysterious Mayan prophecies."
"I want everyone to watch this movie and they can't help but study the Mayan prophecies, and then make them believe that there will indeed be the end of the world in 2012, and then they will have a sense of fear for 2012 a few years later, and finally
It is better integrated into the movie. This is a way to attract the curiosity of movie fans and is conducive to the promotion of our movie." Wang Shang explained.
After hearing Wang Shang's explanation, Liu Tianwang couldn't help but exclaimed: "This idea is really great!!"
But what he didn't know was that this was just a superficial reason. When the movie is released and lures scientists to study the Mayan calendar, it will definitely shock people around the world - the Mayan calendar actually predicts that 2012 will happen.
Will enter a doomsday state!!
It is estimated that by then, the box office will soar again...
Maybe this movie can go down in film history but not necessarily...
Wang Shang, who successfully deceived King Liu Tian, breathed a sigh of relief and continued to discuss the plot.
Wang Shang dictated: "When the end came, a meteorite landed from the sky, carrying a deadly virus. Overnight, the virus broke out. Countless people, animals, and plants mutated."
"Those who failed to mutate became zombies, animals, and plants carrying the virus; while those who succeeded in mutating have a physique that resists the virus, become more powerful, stronger, and can develop various superpowers."
"After the end of the world, electronics and industry will collapse in all directions, with shortages of food, clothing, and various materials..."
King Liu Tian listened quietly.
"I want to portray the protagonist as a 'good guy', but a simple 'good guy' cannot survive in the apocalypse because he has to eat, wear clothes, and compete with others for resources, so he must do bad things."
"Now here comes the question. I hope that after watching the protagonist do all kinds of 'bad things', the audience will still think that the protagonist is a 'good guy'. This is a contradiction, how to solve it?" This problem is one that Wang Shang has never thought of a solution to.
After hearing Wang Shang's question, King Liu Tian also fell into deep thought.
Soon, he raised his head and replied: "I can assign the protagonist a person he must protect, such as parents, wife, children, and then use relatives to arouse the audience's sympathy. As long as the audience's sympathy rises, they will hate others.
If he is a bad guy, then it is natural for the protagonist to rise up and resist."
After hearing this, Wang Shang's eyes lit up and he slapped his head and cursed himself for being stupid. During this period of time, through the Internet in his mind, he read so many novels about the end of the world where the protagonist's whole family died and then he was upgraded to a single player. He forgot that in the movie, he could give
The protagonist adds a mission to protect the supporting role.
The novel and the movie are really different.
Thinking of this, Wang Shang thought of "War of the Worlds" which had just been released, and came to a conclusion in his mind. However, he still asked Liu Tianwang: "Then the one you want to protect is your parents? Wife? Son? Daughter?"
Liu Tianwang thought for a while and said: "I choose my daughter! I just thought of Spielberg's "War of the Worlds", in which the protagonist takes his daughter through various dangers."
After hearing this, Wang Shang smiled: "I think so too. Children represent a new vitality that can bring vitality to the dead end of the world. It is better to choose a daughter than a son, because a daughter is weaker and more in need.
I want to take care of people, and I hope it can arouse the desire for protection in people’s hearts.”
The two of them thought of going together!
Look at each other and smile.
Liu Tianwang said cheerfully: "I guess the screenwriter of the "War of the Worlds" movie also considered this at the time."
At this moment, Xiao Ha, the pug, ran over with a bumpy belly, and then looked at the plate of fruit on the stone table with a cute and embarrassing face, obviously eager to eat it.
King Liu Tian was obviously wary of this guy and quickly moved his feet away.
Unexpectedly, I got the contempt of ‘Xiao Ha’.
Wang Shang picked up a piece of apple and handed it to it, thoughtfully, then pointed at Xiao Ha, the pug who was happily chewing the apple, and said to King Liu Tian: "What do you think of adding another partner to your father and daughter?"
"Just this dog?" Liu Tianwang looked at this 'bad' dog with a look of constipation on his face.
"Well, how about it? Two people and one dog go through the apocalypse. You can set the dog to mutate and become stronger due to the virus, and at the same time loyally protect the owner. At the same time, you can set your daughter to like the dog very much. In the unsafe apocalypse,
Only you and this dog can make your daughter feel safe. Think about it, in a dark age without order, how difficult it is for a loyal dog to experience, this relationship will definitely make movie fans happy."
King Liu Tianwang looked at the 'little ha' that was shamelessly rolling around on the ground begging to be fed, and then thinking about how it had peed on its own pants just now, a black line appeared on his face: "Let him be my partner in the end of the world."
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Wang Shang was happy when he saw Liu Tianwang like that: "Haha, don't worry, its IQ is very high."
Although Liu Tianwang was deeply unhappy, he thought that Wang Shang was indeed right. Having a dog could indeed bring more warmth to the cruel apocalypse. After all, this is a science fiction film, not a horror film.
"Okay!" Liu Tianwang finally pinched his nose and admitted.
But he still looked at this pug Xiaoha with contempt.
As if feeling the contempt of King Liu Tian, the pug Xiao Ha dodged, raised his right hind foot, and a water arrow suddenly sprayed towards the location of King Liu...
Wang Shang gloated and laughed: "They say it has a very high IQ, don't despise it..."
"..." Liu Tianwang looked at his feet that were soaked again, his face as dark as the bottom of a pot.
After Liu Tianwang changed his pants again, he continued to discuss plot issues with Wang Shang.
The next thing to discuss is the monster model. In order to give the audience a sense of a new world, many monsters must give people a sense of novelty.
"The first is to set up zombies. The word zombie comes from the voodoo belief. It is a living person without autonomous consciousness. We need to make a fundamental difference between zombies and zombies. Zombies are afraid of light, while zombies are not. Zombies move faster.
, zombies move slowly, but when zombies see living flesh and blood, they will become crazy and become extremely hungry."
"But zombies are just the most common monsters. They are slow and can be killed by just knocking their heads off."
"Then there will be zombie dogs and zombie cats. These monsters will be extremely dangerous and difficult for ordinary people to deal with."
"There is also the licker, a more advanced evolved creature with a long, retractable tongue, sharp claws, super fast movement speed, strong, hard, and powerful self-repairing body..."
"Piranha flowers evolved from pitcher plants. They emit drugs that cause animals to faint and capture prey..."
"Devil's vine evolved from ordinary vines. It has crazy vines that like the flesh and blood of animals. Spikes can grow on the outside of the vine to suck blood and flesh..."
"Zombie bird..."
"Giant spiders, snakes..."
As Wang Shang spoke, he drew on the manuscript paper the monster models he imagined.
As a director, painting is a skill that needs to be mastered, because when communicating, painting can be more direct than language, making it easier for others to understand the director's intention...