Volume 1: A sound on Wall Street, Xinxiang City is busy copying books Chapter 63: Writing a Script
Chapter Subtitle: Indestructible Flowers
Destroy... Well, our tireless teacher Yuan patiently said, "David, if directors like you are the ancient Egyptian priests who make mummies, then who is the one who provides this body?"
"Of course it is..." The great director suddenly realized: "The screenwriter, you mean the screenwriter!"
First, knock the man unconscious, then you can smuggle the contraband. Having said this, Yuan Yan finally revealed her true intentions.
In fact, Master Yuan has a big ambition in his heart, which is to establish a "writer-director dual system" that can stand on equal footing with the "director center" and "big studio"!
"Yes, it's the screenwriter." Our Master Yuan nodded and said earnestly: "The reason why your "The Birth of a Nation" was successful is that this film was adapted from Mr. Thomas Dickson's "The Clansman (also known as the 3KKK)". And the reason why your "Party Against Dissidents" failed is because..."
In fact, the script of this film was written by Griffith himself, or more precisely, it was created on the spot. He didn't even have a script before most of the shots were shot.
Yuan Yanshu didn't say anything more, but leaned back on the sofa, picked up the wine glass and took a big sip. Does a mouth cannon also need lubrication?
Although he showed mercy and did not go ahead with the slap, the expression on David Griffith's face was still very ugly.
In fact, it was not that no one in the industry had said these things to him, but he was a successful artist after all, so he didn't listen to them because he had his own pride. But the Chinese man in front of him was different. Compared with those people in the industry he was familiar with, he said a lot of things, and he was so... He naturally didn't know what was called "high class", he just knew that people felt convinced when they listened to him, this person was just like a great intellectual who specialized in film research, and he was still so young, which made him feel a little ashamed.
But David Griffith was, after all, a 45-year-old film master who had achieved great success. He was certainly not so easy to fool.
The director pondered for a long time, then sighed and said, "Neo, I admit that what you said makes sense. But..."
He smiled bitterly and said, “But where can I find a suitable screenwriter?”
There is such a person in front of you!
"Master Ball, how many B coins do I need to exchange for the movie script of that novel?"
"Host, exchanging the adapted script of the original novel only requires half of the original B-coins. In other words, the host only needs 50 B-coins to exchange the movie script of your novel. However, if you want to exchange it for a detailed storyboard, the price will be the same as the original novel. In addition, please note that this service is only available for novels that have been adapted into movies ."
The storyboard is naturally different from the literary script. The literary script lays the foundation for filming the movie, but it cannot be used directly for filming. The director must write the storyboard based on the content of the script and his own overall conception. Its price is the same as the original novel, which is really reasonable.
"Then let me check my B-coin balance."
"Querying... As of now, 55B coins."
Yuan Yanshu had been writing Socialism for almost a month, and he wrote very fast... well, how could he not write fast if he copied? So the two Knight professors and his classmates provided him with some B coins, and together with several editors and Miss Helen Brown who had read the novel, he had 55 B coins.
The mysterious oriental man showed a mysterious smile on his face. Our Master Yuan did not answer the question . He suddenly stood up and nodded to the three people present, saying, "Sorry, excuse me for a moment. I'll be back soon."
After about a moment's peeing time, the old man came back leisurely, holding a stack of manuscripts in his hand, a stack of freshly-written manuscripts.
When passing by the buffet table, Yuan Yan suddenly remembered something. He walked to the table, picked up a fork, dipped a little chocolate cake on the tip of the fork, wrote a line on the first page of the manuscript, and then returned to his original seat.
"David, this is the movie script I wrote." But our Master Yuan handed the manuscript to Miss Lillian Gish, "Originally, I wrote a novel and submitted it to New York University Press..."
Of course, he couldn't say that the NYU Press had rejected his manuscript, so he said vaguely, "I have almost reached an agreement with the 'people inside' of the publishing house, and it will be published probably next month. I have some free time recently, so I adapted my novel into a movie script."
Miss Gish picked it up and saw the title was "Chocolate”, and the dedication below, written on a chocolate cake: For Miss Lillian Gish, Unbroken Flower.
To Miss Lillian Gish, the indestructible flower.
In fact, he borrowed the name from Griffith's film of the year, Broken Flower, which naturally starred Miss Gish, as a poor girl who is often abused by her alcoholic father, a film that completely recreated her childhood experience.
Sure, she performed brilliantly in it, but of course, the film was also a huge failure at the box office.
In fact, the actress's father was an alcoholic who neglected his family, and her mother was a stage actor. She ran away with her and her sister Dorothy. The three of them made a living by acting, and they lived a very hard life.
It was not until 1912 that Lillian Gish met Griffith, was appreciated by him, and became his most important actor, which changed her fate. In real history, she was indeed grateful. After Griffith's film career failed, she continued to take care of this poor mentor until his death.
So when she saw this dedication, tears welled up in her eyes, and she raised her head and gazed at our Master Yuan affectionately...
"Lillian, Lillian, Lillian!"
"Ah, what's going on?"
"script."
"By the way, the script is for you, David."
Louis Baker looked at his Chinese classmate and said in surprise, "Neo, I never knew you could write not only novels but also movie scripts."
Just like Stephen Chow’s classic performance in “The King of Comedy”, Yuan Yanshu replied very seriously and formally: “Louie, actually I am an actor.”
Miss Gish, who was in a state of excitement, said in surprise, "Ah! Oh, you are an actor too?"
Our Master Yuan nodded and said, "I... to be exact, my family has been fans of Chinese opera for generations."
He pointed at the white dragon robe he was wearing and said, "This is the costume for the Chinese opera."
