Coquettish Rebirth

Speaking of which, Nolan wanted to "become a monk" for a period of time, partly because he wanted to experience the atmosphere of Buddhism because of the young literary and artistic youth's pursuit of perfection, and the other reason was mainly because he couldn't find Tang Seng as a reason What is the motivation to learn from the scriptures!

However, he didn't ask Jia Hongjian such a question, because as a film creator, he always felt that he had to understand the character, put himself in the role's position, and experience the character's mental journey.In fact, Nolan can ask Jia Hongjian directly. After all, such a whole story is the structure that Jia Hongjian thought up. Even if Jia Hongjian can't find anything, the two can discuss it. Keep creating!

However, Nolan has a knot in his heart—he has been thinking about writing a script for the past two years, which is a script that is a bit like a thief stealing things. I can't write any more, the reason is that on the one hand, Nolan doesn't want the protagonist to steal things because of money, but on the other hand, he can't think of other suitable motives!

In fact, such a script is the future "Inception". Today, such a script is just a concept of a team of thieves stealing money like "Ocean's Eleven", and it only has a beginning.Originally, Nolan couldn't write well because he couldn't find a suitable motivation. On the other hand, after rushing to shoot two movies in the past few years, his state of mind is completely different from when he didn't make his debut a few years ago. The difference made him feel the change.If he doesn't find a suitable motivation, it can be said that if he is asked to write the script that once excited him, he will not be able to write it perfectly!

Why do you say that?A few years ago, Nolan was still an "audience" with a little film knowledge and a layman. The plots of the movies he thought of were all learned from other movies.In the past few years, he filmed the first film "Tracking", and then released it in various independent film circles, and then asked the audience to donate to raise funds for the filming of "Memory Fragments", and even ran to Hong Kong I went to the film festival to participate in the exhibition, and went to the stage with my wife to ask the audience for donations after the film was broadcast.So after so many years of experience, he is no longer the "audience" who just graduated from university and had little social experience.He is now an insider with two films.He is already a future star that Spielberg is optimistic about, and was even evaluated by the old man as one of "the few film authors in the world"!Listen up, film writers!No longer a simple film director!So his demands on himself are naturally high, and he naturally can't ask himself to "collect the strengths of various families" into one movie.So he asked to make a movie with his own characteristics!

And the first step for such a movie is to find a different reason for the protagonist to commit crimes.A reason for the protagonist to keep going down.A reason to make the protagonist the protagonist!So he was entangled, and he didn't continue to write such a script.In writing "Tang Xuanzang's Magical Journey" this time, he also wanted to find out Tang Xuanzang's motivation, and to see if this way of thinking could inspire him to write "Inception" by the way.See if you can find a motive for the protagonist of Inception.

So, three days later, Nolan came to the famous Buddhist temple in Los Angeles, Xilai Temple, and "ordained".When he came here, he just stayed for a short period of time, and came to experience the division of Buddhism, so he is not actually a monk, but at most it is just a sojourn.The monks of the Xilai Temple welcomed Nolan very much. They even agreed to Nolan's request to be shaved and feel bald.Then, this Nolan shaved his head, put on a monk's robe and started his "practice" career.This practice basically means living with the monk every day, eating the same fasting meal every day, and doing the same morning and evening classes every day.

Then, after a week without any modern electronic equipment, no TV, no radio, no CD video tapes, mobile entertainment equipment, Nolan found Jia Hongjian with a single brain, "Mr. Jia, I can't start. I'm in a predicament." "A predicament is a predicament, what's the matter with your head? Look at your swollen forehead!" Jia Hongjian was startled at that moment!This is not an exaggeration at all. One must know that the Nolan in front of Jia Hongjian is really a bump on his forehead!It's really yellow and purple!

"I hit the wall. I couldn't figure it out. I hit the wall in a hurry. I thought hitting the wall might be better..." Nolan explained helplessly, "When I was writing the script of "Memory Fragments", sometimes I was thinking about myself. My head was messed up, I hit the wall, and I got used to it... But this is not important, the important thing is that I can't think of the motive, Mr. Jia! Why did Tang Monk go to learn the scriptures? If he is the Moses of the East, he will learn the scriptures this time It is a religious Exodus, unless we have written before that he saw the hardships of your Chinese people, there is no reason for him to travel long distances to India when he is not willing to do so? Reasonable!"

"Well...the motive...is because the royal family of the Tang Dynasty regarded themselves as the inheritors of Taoism in China, and the dynasty before them promoted Buddhism more, so they just started to suppress Buddhism and promote Taoism, and wanted to balance the strength of both sides. So Tang Seng Asked by his master and others to go to India to learn more advanced Buddhist theories, in order to come back to promote Buddhism to the royal family, and then restore the glory of the past... When he came back, more than ten years had passed, and Taoism had already won a great victory. So the emperor needed to suppress Taoism again, so the emperor chose to publicize the first story to support the suppressed and depressed Buddhism..." Jia Hongjian expressed his own understanding, "This is my own Think of the motive, and then, you can also refer to the book "Da Tang Xi Yu Ji" written by Tang Seng himself. He recorded in detail the reasons for his travel and what he saw along the way. Among the reasons for his travel, he wrote It is to seek to learn Mahayana's "Yogi's Land Theory" and to solve the long-standing debates about the Buddha-nature among Chinese monks since the Southern and Northern Dynasties, that is, can mortals become Buddhas?

"..." Nolan stared blankly at Jia Hongjian. His eyes widened, and he looked at Jia Hongjian as if he had been petrified. He didn't move, he didn't even blink! "What? Mr. Jia, you have already thought about the motive? Why didn't you tell me?" Nolan was about to collapse at that time!He's had a headache for a week, banging his head against the wall trying to come up with a motive!As a result, Jia Hongjian already had a mature "motivation" theory, and there were even two!How could he accept this!

"You never asked me..." Jia Hongjian shrugged his shoulders and could only answer like this.At that time, Nolan told him that he would go to Xilai Temple to experience it, and he was going to experience it as Nolan!Who would have thought Nolan was for anything else?How could he know what Nolan was thinking in advance?

Hearing Jia Hongjian's words, Nolan was determined to die at that time!If he had known this, he would have just asked Jia Hongjian directly, why did he run into the monastery and bang his head against the wall?This, this, this, how embarrassing it is for him!He originally thought of it on his own, but apart from all the reasons he had thought about before, there was another most important reason - he wanted to prove his ability to Jia Hongjian!He is now seeking to become a regular, and of course he has to prove that he is awesome!In the end, who knew that such an act that seemed to prove that he was awesome turned out to be timid, and turned out to be a joke!For him, at this moment, he really wanted to find a crack in the ground to get in!It was so embarrassing, it almost made him ashamed to continue competing for such a director position!

However, this European and American is more active after all, or more shameless.Although Nolan felt ashamed now, he didn't say that he was so shy that he lost his confidence, cried and went home to find his wife, and then needed Jia Hongjian to coax him to help him regain his confidence!Nolan nodded at this moment, "So that's the case, okay, I'll go back and write!" Then he pretended that nothing happened, and walked out of DreamWorks carelessly!

After Nolan left, Jia Hongjian was in the DreamWorks, and it was a bit ridiculous.He didn't expect Nolan to be so "cute", even when he was stupid, he looked cute, didn't he?It's really unbearable to laugh!This idiot couldn't figure it out and didn't know how to ask. In order to prove his ability, he hit his head against the wall... Did this guy really think that he could figure it out after hitting his head against the wall?Is such a comedic guy really the guy who wrote Inception?Is this really one of the better new-generation directors in Hollywood who haven't combined business and art?Well, at least it seems that Nolan not only has the talent of screenwriting and directing, but also... the talent of being a comedian!

Well, here Nolan has shown a little bit of his potential as a 2b youth besides literary youth and ordinary youth, and then slowly began to truly show his talent.After he returned home, the Buddhist atmosphere he experienced in the monastery within a week turned into inspiration a little bit.He locked himself in the house, played various types of music to "tick" his inspiration, and then began to draw a story line in his mind on the whiteboard on the wall of his house... ( To be continued..)