Coquettish Rebirth

After Nolan signed the contract, he got a handwritten plot outline from Jia Hongjian.This outline is of course in English, and it was written by Jia Hongjian when he was on the plane.The number of words written in such an article is not many, roughly it is to write a process, a few paragraphs to appear in a movie and the overall story setting.After seeing such a thing, Nolan directly noticed the two-layered design of this story!In this story, what is designed is a fairy tale-like adventure story on the surface, but underneath this story is an amazing bloody road!Then, almost the whole story is about the first story, and it is only at the end that the second story is highlighted.It can really be said that such an ending is definitely a bit of a "stroke of magic"!

Nolan fell in love with this story at first sight!In his opinion, such a story can be shot very grand, very humanistic, very dreamy, and such a high-energy reaction at the end is really in line with his Nolan temper, okay?So just looking at such an ending, he already wants to make this movie very much-such a plot setting can be said to be "torture human nature", not a traditional Hollywood blockbuster model that is purely lively and special effects, and at the same time It also analyzes a "mutation" of people in extreme environments and how they will deceive themselves in order to protect themselves!How bloody and profound is this?As a literary youth, how could he not love such "profound" themes?

So at this time Nolan is really interested in the movie!So he couldn't help applauding, "Mr. Jia, you really came up with this idea? It's great, it's so genius, it's amazing! Seriously, have you never thought about entering Hollywood? No? Haha, then I will lose a strong competitor! God bless you!" Nolan said humorously at this time with a smile on his face.His kind of humor is of course a kind of flattery, just like what Jia Hongjian said, what a boss likes most is to get the recognition of his professional level from the professionals under him, even if it is Jia Hongjian, in such a I can't help being happy for such a scene! "Haha, thank you buddy. That's right. How do you think this movie should be shot? What do you think such a story should look like when it's shown?" When Jia Hongjian asked this, it really wasn't about Nolan As a director to ask, he just asked casually, anyway, the other party is both a director and a screenwriter.It's okay to ask from the director's point of view!

"I think... I think we can mess up the timeline a little bit! For example, at the beginning. It was Tang... Tang... Kesi... Drill... Zi..." Nolan's side was just beginning to be excited To discuss the plot.At the beginning of brainstorming, he found that he encountered a big problem-he couldn't pronounce the Chinese character!Jia Hongjian wrote Tang Xuanzang's name directly in the pinyin tang-xuan-zang, and then the Tang characters.There is nothing wrong with the pronunciation of the British Nolan, but the sound of x in English is the sound of "Ike death". If it is placed in a word, it should be pronounced as "x" or "z". , like the word "Xanadu" in "Xanadu", the pronunciation is similar to "Where is the degree".So the pronunciation of the three words "Tang Xuanzang" in Nolan's mouth became "Tang Zuanzang" or something like that!

"Xuanzang..." Jia Hongjian began to teach the foreigner how to pronounce, but he realized that it is really difficult for people from English-speaking countries to pronounce the Chinese z sound, just like when Wang Zhizhi went to the American Mavericks. When playing, the Mavericks' on-site commentator called out his name after he scored a goal, and his name was similar to "Wang Riri"!So at this time, after Jia Hongjian thought about it, he simply used this way of teaching Nolan—"We will call him Monk Tang, which will be more convenient for you." After saying this, Jia Hongjian also It's a bit strange, because in some games of later generations, the character of a "monk" in Chinese style is sometimes clearly named "monk" in English, so from this unorthodox perspective Said, Tang Seng actually means "Tang Wu Monk" in English?

Of course, Nolan didn't know about Jia Hongjian's petty mood, so he hurriedly called Tang Xuanzang according to Jia Hongjian's teaching method, "At the beginning, Tang monks returned to the capital. For the close-up of the palace in the capital, if we want to save money, we can also set up a scene and only take pictures of the magnificent interior of the building, so as to imply that such a scene is in the palace, and then the Tang monk met your emperor, Begin to tell the Emperor about his journey along the way..."

As he said that, Nolan's "brain hole" became bigger and bigger, "Then let's not tell the story of monk Tang when he first walked out of the capital. A fierce fight leads to the Monkey King, and then a flashback is introduced in this way..." Basically, he just made Jia Hongjian's pre-planned narrative mode even more "upside down" For a moment, it basically messed up the timeline, and then deliberately put a later story in the front, and put the previous story in the back... To be honest, Jia Hongjian has already noticed it after hearing this Nolan is a bit of a showman!

But at this moment, Nolan stopped by himself, he shook his head, "No, no, this is not good, if Monk Tang himself is a bit insane through the timeline of the chaotic narrative, it will be the last When the second layer of story was pointed out, it was not shocking enough... It is still necessary to make the previous Tang Seng look more upright and gentleman, so that there can be enough conflicts and reversal effects..."

kindness?As soon as Jia Hongjian heard this, he realized that this Nolan was quite capable of self-correction!Then Jia Hongjian didn't have time to say anything, so he listened to Nolan and went on: "Maybe we can leave some evidence in other aspects? For example, in the first small climax, That is, after encountering a robber. Before the Monkey King came out, we...give a black screen? For example, if we suddenly zoomed in, the camera seemed to be able to directly enter Tang Seng's black eyes, and then a black screen, thump, thump, and intense drumbeats sounded , and then the screen brightened, the Monkey King fell from the sky, fell on the ground and made a pit, and then the screen was combined with a flickering black screen and the normal screen. With the drumbeat, the Monkey King jumped out of the pit with a sense of strength. It feels like Superman is coming! But in fact, the black screen we deliberately gave implies that it is Tang Seng’s imagination! Because it is imagination, the Monkey King actually appeared suddenly, and there will be no one flying from the sky But in order to cover up that he suddenly appeared out of thin air. We use such a black screen for technical processing. While making the audience look cool, it also allows the language of the camera to blend with the drums and passionate music. !"

Hey!When Jia Hongjian heard this, he immediately felt that the idea was great!It’s too graphic, isn’t it!If this is really handled well, it is likely that the audience will feel that such a scene is just "playing cool" when they watch it for the first time.It's just to coordinate with the music and drums to render and inspire a stronger viewing emotion!It is to let the audience "burn" up!But, in fact, this is a little trick!In fact, it was a hint that was deliberately hidden!

Next, Nolan even wants to give Zhu Bajie and even Drifting some special hints.When Sun Wukong appeared, it was all about trying to use a suitable camera angle to avoid shooting Tang Seng's back-that is to say, through the camera angle, the audience thought that Bajie and Drifting Monk were outside the camera. In a place that cannot be photographed, but in fact these two "persons" are not at this "scene" at all!

same!In Zhu Bajie’s various scenes of picking up girls, this old pig suddenly appeared from a certain angle, and when he appeared, through the appropriate selection of the camera, only Bajie and Tang Seng were shown in the camera. Personal presence!This kind of rush is a bit like Cheng Long's martial arts movies - Cheng Long invented a new method in order to avoid the scene in the 70s martial arts movies where a group of people circled around behind the protagonist but didn't come up at all. , That is to let a few thugs gather together first, several people will appear in the camera now, and then through the change of the shooting angle of the machine, only Cheng Long and one thug will appear in the camera fighting each other, and then, Cheng Long After kicking this thug, another angle outside the camera may kick Cheng Long to his knees, which gives the audience the feeling that there are actually several people around outside the camera!Then through the editing, it appears that there are stormy attacks everywhere!But in fact it is not like that at all!

In fact, Cheng Long just improved the traditional fighting, and he only fights with one person at a time, but the thugs walking around behind him are blocked by the camera, making the audience think that they are fighting with each other. Long, but in fact, they all watched Cheng Long defeat someone, and then they went up again!And the method Nolan suggested here is full of montage effects-through editing between shots, by misleading the audience's inertial thinking, making the audience think that several characters are actually accompanying Tang Seng, but they don't It's filmed, but there are actually no other characters around the camera in the story!This is to put together "two shots with no logical relationship", so that the audience subconsciously think that there is a logical relationship between them!

For example, this shot shows Tang Seng talking to Zhu Bajie on the left, and the next shot shows Tang Seng talking to Monkey King on the right.If these two shots are placed in front of one another, it will give people the impression that Tang Seng’s left is Zhu Bajie and Monkey King is on his right. The three of them are together and side by side, but who said it must be like this?Couldn't it be that Tang Seng was alone with Zhu Bajie at the previous point in time, and then alone with Monkey King?

It can be said that Jia Hongjian just chatted with Nolan in such a simple way, and he already discovered that this buddy is proficient in the language of the camera and the narrative techniques of the movie!He is especially good at using the lens to "deceive people", and is especially good at using the camera lens to express a specious scene-the audience thinks that it is expressing a, but in fact it is expressing b! (To be continued..)