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Chapter 99 Black Humor
Huang Ze started writing an outline on paper.

The protagonists are four young good friends, let's call them A, B, C, and D.

A is a petty thief, stingy, but with a good business mind. He spends all day thinking about how to make money and get rich. He is a so-called "business genius".

B is a cook. He is timid and the only one among the four who has a legitimate job. He also desires to get rich.

C is a street thug who often sells stolen goods on the street using flowery language.

Ding is the son of a bar owner. He has a quick mind and is a master at playing cards. However, his greatest skill is not cheating, but judging the opponent's cards by observing his micro-expressions.

It all started because of Ding, the card-playing master.

Everyone knows his abilities and wants to make a big buck by leveraging his abilities.

But the underground casino they knew required a starting price of two hundred thousand!

So the four of them each contributed 50,000 yuan, and together they collected 200,000 yuan, and sent Ding in.

Unfortunately, the casino owner cheated and tricked Ding into owing him one million Hong Kong dollars! He was given a week to pay the money, or he would chop off the four of their hands. The owner knew they couldn't pay, and his goal was actually to take over the bar from Ding's father.

Ding thought that the money was collected by everyone and everyone should pay it back together. The other three people had no objection. After all, the casino owner was going to chop off the hands of four people. Everyone racked their brains to think of ways to make money.

But the savings were gone, the starting capital was gone, and the time was very short, only one week. How could it be so easy to raise one million?
As time went by, the house where the four often gathered was a dilapidated apartment with such poor sound insulation that one could clearly hear what people were talking about next door by standing in the corner.

That day, they heard that a group of people selling contraband next door wanted to rob a group of hemp growers, saying that they had a lot of cash.

After hearing the other party's plan, the four of them came up with a plan: rob the other party!

In order to provide some protection for their plan of robbing the gangsters, they found a black market dealer and bought two old guns from him that were probably much older than theirs combined...

These two guns are also one of the clues.

The Chinese translation of the name in the previous life is also related to it.

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.

Guy Ritchie's debut film is also a masterpiece of multi-line narrative and black humor.

A new director, with a group of unknown actors, many of whom were previously new, suddenly emerged and established a new school. The film received very high praise in the industry and took in more than 20 million US dollars at the global box office.

None of these people have any box office appeal. You can't say that a diving athlete like Statham is famous.

In terms of fame, this singer of mine can beat all of them.

It was after this debut film that the previously unknown Guy Ritchie became instantly famous. Having only made one movie, he met the queen Madonna and they got married.

This film involves five parties and more than twenty main characters. With the help of parallel montage and cross montage, several groups of people converge into a main line, and the main line ends with an open ending.

At the same time, the main line is used to turn a single line into multiple lines, nesting repetitive narratives, and interpreting the word "cleverness" to the fullest.

Of course, although there are five parties, in fact the casino owner's side can be divided into three parties.

The casino owner, the duo of stupid thieves hired by the boss' top subordinate, and the man who is ruthless and doesn't talk much and often brings his son with him to collect debts.

Plus the protagonist group, the hemp-growing group, the white fan-selling group, and the hey people above the hemp-growing group.

There are seven forces in total.

Ah!
Thinking of this, Huang Ze felt that his face blindness was acting up.

Thinking back to when I watched this movie before, apart from that group of guys, the rest of the characters were all white, and their clothes were the same style, so it was hard to tell who was who from time to time.

I watched it twice before I understood it completely.

"No, no, we need to lower the threshold for watching movies!" Fortunately, Hong Kong Island is also an international city, so it's okay to invite people of other skin colors.

Huang Ze's hand trembled, and he defined the hemp-growing group as the low-caste people on Asan's side. Their superiors remained the same, and the group of people who robbed the hemp-growing group and were bullied by the protagonist group were still white people.

The protagonists and the casino owner are of course yellow people.

The black market merchants will find a fat man when the time comes.

The casino owner, his top general, and the ruthless and taciturn debt collector were all dressed in black.

Well, this way it won’t be messy.

Even if I take it to the United States, I can distinguish them so clearly. Are you still face-blind?
And it will also be easier to get box office sales abroad.

After finishing the settings, Huang Ze continued writing.

Because the movie's talkative dialogues are extremely exquisite, and considering that it will be released in the United States, the movie is already messy enough, and you have to read the subtitles, and even if the superstars come, the box office will not be able to increase. So Huang Ze spent a week writing both the Chinese and English versions of the script, and then the English version will be dubbed with these lines.

But after looking at the Chinese translated version of the script, Huang Ze shook his head.

It doesn't quite fit. Although I have translated the lines myself, it still has the flavor of a dubbed film. It still needs to be localized!
After all, I was still thinking about making money at the box office in Hong Kong Island, and it would feel weird to speak with so many lines.

Huang Ze smacked his lips, took the Chinese script and showed it to Gong Xing.

After reading it, Gong Wei scratched his head and said, "It's so confusing! I don't understand it."

"It's a mess, it's better if it's filmed." Huang Ze continued to ask, "Where else do you think there is a problem?"

"Lines? I always feel it's a little awkward."

"Okay!" After confirming this, Huang Ze was not in a hurry to find actors and brought the script to the company first.

The company has a screenwriter department. Huang Ze recruited six people at once. He spent money to support so many screenwriters, but he didn't just let them eat for free.

In order to ensure the quality after the revision, Huang Ze specially asked the human resources department to recruit two screenwriters who were good at comedy, and the number one general Liu Zhenwei also took some time for me to study how to make the revisions when I was the producer of "Chungking Express".

As for Wang Jiawei, forget it, he still has to make movies. Besides, Huang Ze doesn't have the confidence to ask him to revise a comedy script.

After throwing the script to the audience, Huang Ze once again entered a leisurely state.

Every day I either go to watch the filming of "As Tears Go By" to prevent Wong Chia Wai from going crazy, or I enjoy life.

Until his agent Susanna called Huang Ze and said, "Huang, do you have any new songs? Warner Bros. has contacted me and asked me if I have any works. Even if it's just one song, you can release a single. You have to maintain the popularity."

Huang Ze agreed directly, thinking that he would be idle anyway and would not waste his biggest source of income. "Tell Warner that I will go to New York within a week. As for the songs, we should make an EP for three songs."

With each song released, Huang Ze always feels sorry for his fans.

It’s better to be generous.

As for which three songs to write.

But he couldn't be too ahead of the times, so Huang Ze took a pen and started digging into the songs that would be popular in the next ten years or so.

The first song, "Everything I Do", is also the theme song of the movie "Robinson", an Oscar-winning song. It fits the tone of the previous album and is popular enough that old fans need to give back.

The next one, "I swear", was going to be written in 87. If I don't copy it now, I'll be too late to catch up. It's a pity to miss such a popular song in the previous life.

The last words.

"Uh, let's stop doing these lyrical things, make it something cheerful..."

(End of this chapter)