Cao Weidong was very satisfied with the script that Nikuang and the others came up with, and couldn't help but clapped his hands and praised it.
"The foundation of these scripts is very good. As long as they are polished carefully, they will become very high-quality scripts."
Among these scripts, there is a Jingwu hero modified by Ni Kuan Mo.
Cao Weidong looked through it emphatically.
The protagonist of this movie is still Chen Zhen.
However, the birth of the protagonist, background, character experience, and even the final opponent have all changed slightly.
However, these changes have made the content of Jingwu Heroes more saturated and the logic more self-consistent.
Except for this script, the other movie routines are similar.
Ni Kuang and others also made up several fictional heroes with different heritages and abilities.
These heroes are in the same historical background and going on their own adventures.
Cao Weidong is very satisfied with these scripts.
He is worthy of being one of the four great talents in Hong Kong.
The movie scripts they produced are all top-notch in terms of quality and conception.
Although it is far from reaching international standards, it can be regarded as a satisfactory answer.
Cao Weidong immediately ordered the secretary to write a check.
However, at this time, the four great talents in Hong Kong City were a little unhappy.
Especially the neon basket.
His face darkened immediately.
He said firmly:
"Mr. Cao, there is no rush about the remuneration. I want to hear first, how do you plan to revise these movie scripts of ours?"
"If it is an adaptation for personal purposes, I still have to consider our cooperation."
The implication.
If Cao Weidong's answer does not satisfy Ni Kuang, he may not give these scripts to Cao Weidong.
There are two things that Ni Kuang is most proud of in his life.
One is to ghostwrite novels for Jin Yong.
Another thing is that when I wrote the script for Zhang Che, I never deleted it.
This time Ni Kuang and his friends wrote a novel together and revised the draft repeatedly. It was already an exception for him.
Unexpectedly, Cao Weidong was not satisfied yet and threatened to revise the script, which made Ni Kuang very dissatisfied.
Cao Weidong keenly grasped Ni Kuang’s idea.
He smiled.
Then Cao Weidong recalled the book "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" that he had read in his previous life, and extracted the concept of the hero's journey. Then he took the hero of Jingwu as an example, substituted it into the model story of the hero's journey, and asked some questions.
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These questions involve the character's personality changes, the character's psychology in the highlights and darkest moments, the changes in the character's gains and losses, etc.
These questions left Ni Kang speechless and speechless for a moment.
He just conceived a script.
As for a more complete world view, Ni Kuang has never thought about it.
Cao Weidong laughed and said: "If I were to write it, I would probably revise it like this..." In this short period of time, he perfected many details in the movie script.
"This... can the script be written like this? Those worldviews are simply unnecessary?"
Cao Weidong retorted with a smile.
"This is not a stand-alone movie that makes no sense. We want to build a cosmic world. This world must have a lot of details, so detailed that the audience can believe it. This is our purpose."
"But this is not something ordinary people can do."
"No, as long as you master the method and undergo systematic training, it can be achieved."
This is the importance of movie templates.
In Hollywood movies, we often see the same story template, which is an unlikely hero embarking on a journey that is thrust upon them.
Along the way, the hero makes some allies, makes some enemies, and even falls in love.
They learned a lot during their journey and became wiser and stronger than when they started.
This structure is called the "hero's journey" in the literary world.
"Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", "Star Wars", "The Matrix", "Spider-Man", "The Lion King" and the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, these movies have left a great reputation in the history of film.
Basically, this script template is used.
This hero's journey seems simple, but it was adopted by many screenwriters in later generations and even became an assembly line job.
Original creative development - applying the hero's journey - polishing the details of the movie world...and so on.
Because the hero's journey template is used, a story can be told effectively and quickly.
When a story revolves around the protagonist's changes, it forms a solid foundational plot.
But this alone is not enough.
The story, characters and setting also need to change significantly to make the story new and exciting.
Otherwise, the movie story will only end up with empty clichés and an easily forgettable ending.
After sending away the four most convinced talents, Cao Weidong immediately returned to his office and devoted himself to the intense and busy work.
In addition to the six scripts sent by Ni Kung and the others, he also collected several sets of scripts from other screenwriters during this time. In total, there are fifteen movie scripts.
After careful screening, Cao Weidong selected ten of these scripts and planned to give them to the ten winners of the No. 1 Martial Arts Club in the world to film.
As for the two movies "One-Armed Sword" and "Ghost Horse Double Star" that Zou Wenhuai is preparing to shoot.
For the former, Zou Wenhuai planned in advance and already had a complete movie script, while for the latter, Xu Guanjie came up with his own script.
So the filming of these two movies has already started, and I heard that they will be finished soon.
Cao Weidong asked his secretary to find Zou Wenhuai.
Zou Wenhuai arrived at the office soon.
When he heard Cao Weidong say that the script had been selected, he was curious, so he took it over and looked through it.
"The quality of these scripts is really high, very good."
Zou Wenhuai praised a few times and then asked.
"When do you plan to start filming?"
Cao Weidong said.
"Let's start in the next few days."
"Okay, I'll make arrangements right away."
"Wait, don't worry, I have one more thing."
Cao Weidong stopped Zou Wenhuai and expressed his inner thoughts.
"I hope that someone can be assigned to record this shooting."
"Record? Record what."
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"Record the mistakes we made during the film shooting process, record the many details of the film shooting, refine and optimize the film shooting industry, and gradually industrialize the film, establish benchmarks and standardize it."
Film industry?
Zou Wenhuai has never heard of this term.
He asked with some confusion.
"What is the film industry and why haven't I heard of it before?"
"Oh, this is the most cutting-edge concept in Hollywood right now, so you haven't heard of it."
Zou Wenhuai was in awe.
It turns out to be the latest concept in Hollywood, so it must be awesome.
In fact, in this era, most people have a common thought - foreign monks can chant sutras.
When many people hear that a certain concept or product is from abroad, they are in awe and label it high-end and classy in their hearts.
Zou Wenhuai is no exception.
This kind of thought of admiring strong people and foreigners is not good, but at this moment, it happens to be exploited by Cao Weidong.
He unfolded the explanation for Zou Wenhuai.
The so-called film industry, broadly speaking, refers to the industrial system composed of a series of industrial chain links, manufacturers and related services surrounding the production, marketing, distribution, and post-product development of film and television works.
This is an extremely complex, high-intensity, high-density, centralized industry that requires the cooperation of many people.
In a narrow sense, the film industry encompasses all products and services needed for the production of film and television works.
It includes pre-production, post-production, finished product production and other links, the required equipment and technical services, and the film and television production industrial system composed of manufacturers.
In Cao Weidong's history, only Hollywood has formed a complete and systematic film industry, and it has continued to brainwash the world with its worldview and culture for decades.
Even China, which was taking off in its previous life, has not reached the level of the film industry.
Let’s take the simplest example.
In the movie "Avengers 4", you can still see the hidden details in the grand final battle.
It can even be said that in every scene and even every frame of the entire movie, you can see the rich details that the "Avengers Universe" should present after more than ten years of useless production experience and creative assets.
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The workload behind this is huge.
But for Hollywood, which has formed a complete film industry, this is completely natural——
In order to shoot a movie, just for the art direction part, there are different professions such as illustrators, storyboard artists, matte artists, set designers, model makers, set painters, title artists, graphic designers, etc. p>
Not to mention a team of screenwriters, lighting, photography, special effects, screenwriters, directors who have received systematic training...
Zou Wenhuai was completely shocked by Cao Weidong's description.
It turns out that this is the film industry.
But...can I do it myself?
Cao Weidong smiled.
"We can definitely do it, and we must do it. We must set film benchmarks and set an example for future film companies!"
Film industrialization is the future trend.
Only in this way can we drive the great development of a large number of midstream and downstream industries.
Let professionals who produce equipment, manufacture props, and create special effects get higher returns, and let the most front-line directors, screenwriters, and actors work hard to polish their skills and levels...
Only in this way can an effect of scale be formed, and the entertainment and cultural industry of the entire country can reach a big level.
If you don’t pay attention to the development of the film industry and only indulge in a small circle of famous directors, veteran actors, popular niches, and their party followers to make money for themselves, this will do no good to the entire industry and industry.<
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Zou Wenhuai still has some doubts.
"Can we really do it?"
Cao Weidong patted Zou Wenhuai on the shoulder and said with a smile: "We can definitely do it, come on!"
The matter was settled like that.
Under Cao Weidong's organization, ten satellite companies also began formal filming work.
Cao Weidong found a group of sharp-minded young people from Jiahe Pictures and asked them to participate in the entire filming process and record the mistakes made by the crew and various shooting details.
This is definitely not an easy job.
The director and producer of the production team went to Cao Weidong specifically and angrily stated that this behavior was plagiarism and theft of their creativity, and even threatened him with a strike.
However, Cao Weidong's attitude was very firm.
If you can do it, do it; if you can't, get out.
This made the directors, screenwriters, and producers who protested collectively look at each other in confusion, and were in a difficult position for a while.
They looked at each other.
That’s not right!
Cao Weidong's reaction was different from what they imagined.