Coquettish Rebirth

After the second beep, Nolan became serious all of a sudden, and the seriousness was very sharp!How sharp?To put it simply, when Nolan wrote the script, he did not write it according to the usual method of screenwriter writing-he did not write according to the logic behind it, but directly wrote according to the linear development, or in other words , He just regards himself as a director, and then this script is that he uses words to write out the scenes according to the scenes when the movie is broadcast!

And when he wrote, he didn’t just sit in front of a computer or a typewriter all day long and click on the keyboard. He also installed a huge whiteboard on the wall of his home, and drew all kinds of things on it when he was free. Charts, write all kinds of statements that only you can understand.As for his stuff, they are not ordinary things, it can be said that they are all kinds of "auxiliary materials" prepared for writing that kind of linear script.For example, the character of the character, it is not simply written like a Japanese manga, just arrange the age, height, hair color, and then have any relatives, what they like to do and what they don't like to do.From what Nolan wrote, those can be said to be a complete "biography" of the character!He wrote from the birth of the character, and wrote all kinds of encounters of the character along the way.And this kind of encounter is actually not used in the whole movie at all, but he wrote it to enrich the whole character, just to show it to the corresponding actors as an appendix!

After he did this, although these materials will not be used in the movie at all, they can completely three-dimensionalize a character.It can even summarize the complete "mental journey" of a character!It can be said that now, Nolan has begun to find his own "point of interest". After all, to put it bluntly, the novelty of constructing a story "trap" can't last long-a movie hypothesis plus post-production needs to be completed. After a year, the director will have to edit or something. Can the director keep it fresh for a year?And Nolan felt that after he had no novelty, he needed another kind of emotional fetters to keep him immersed in the story.And this kind of fetter, that is, each character.It can be said that he writes vivid characters one by one, which makes him deeply immersed in this story for a long time.Then even work on this story for a year or two.There will be no aesthetic fatigue!

Of course, this time Nolan will not be as young as he was before. This time he understands that he is not Chinese after all, and there are many things that have mature solutions on the Chinese side.On his side, it became a big problem!So this time he thought of character setting.That was really a phone call to ask Jia Hongjian for advice.In the end, Jia Hongjian, who was so angry, ran directly to his house and simply stayed at his house—please!This talkative Nolan can't stop talking on the phone, okay?Each call lasted more than an hour, which made Jia Hongjian's ears uncomfortable when answering the phone.After thinking about it, I just came here directly!When Nolan finished writing the script, Jia Hongjian's ears were going to be "amputated"!

After staying at Nolan's house, Jia Hongjian and Nolan started to work together.Although it seemed that he hired Liu Zhenyun to be Nolan's assistant and partner, but now that he is on the American side, he might as well just come here!Otherwise, Nolan would have to call Liu Zhenyun across the ocean, and Liu Zhenyun would have to call an interpreter nearby. This would be costly and troublesome, wouldn't it?Next, Jia Hongjian really helped Nolan from various aspects, and then, with his help, Nolan's overall speed was very fast.

Even after the character's personal biography was written, this Nolan began to write the script quickly. With his hard work, he wrote the script in the order that the audience saw it when it was released in three days. Out!However, this is of course the first version of the script, just a rough draft. Even if Jia Hongjian wants to take this script and directly make it into a movie, Nolan himself is not happy about it, because he is a literary youth!Aren't literary and artistic youths demanding excellence in every way?

From a certain point of view, Nolan, a young man of literature and art, is still slightly better than Ang Lee - at least he won't just stop thinking about it when he is not satisfied with his writing, and he has to think of a suitable way of writing before writing.Nolan's way of writing is to write down the passion first, no matter what 21 is finished first.After completing a script with a certain quality, I will modify the dialogue and unsatisfactory parts a little bit!

Anyway, this script will not be published, whenever it feels bad, there is always time to revise it, even to the extreme point, it is okay to temporarily change it when it feels bad during filming!Generally speaking, the script is actually an auxiliary tool for everyone, like a memo, which can let everyone feel what they want to do, and let the actors understand such a play and such a character roughly, and then it is not How to write the script must be done!

So from this point of view, Nolan's way of writing is very efficient-even if it is just a draft, it has not been changed to what he should have in mind, but it can already be used to fool the actors, okay?Even if the dialogue has not been carefully considered, even the movements and expressions of some actors in some places have not been carefully considered, but the whole plot has come out, the whole sense of the picture has come out!Relying on such an overall rush, it has already made the actors feel what kind of play this is!Enough for the actors to pass judgment on!And if it's like Ang Lee's approach of not planning in advance at all, just stopping when he feels bad and insisting on writing a good one, it may take half a year to come out for such a script alone!So Ang Lee also knew that he had this problem in terms of screenwriting, so he didn't write the script for "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" at all, but hired a well-known female screenwriter in Dawan to do the script-Wang Huiling.What about Wang Huiling, who used to be the screenwriter of "Wife Chasing Threesome" which was broadcast in the 90s, a TV series that was once popular in mainland China!

All in all, Nolan, who was accidentally found by Jia Hongjian in late April, wrote the script in no time. The next thing to do is to find someone to write the script. It was translated into Chinese, and then... it was not to fool the actors, but Jia Hongjian and Nolan would wander around the great rivers and mountains of the motherland, Central Asia and other places.This is to step on the spot, or to pick a scene!

For Jia Hongjian, because he has worked with Cheng Long, he has always felt that there is nothing strange about finding a completely real scene to shoot, and it was the same when he worked with Spielberg-this time and space "Saving Private Rui" Well, Spielberg also shot the scene himself!So in Jia Hongjian's opinion, the effect of being able to shoot on the spot must be very good. It can't be like an American TV series, where everything is shot with green cloth?There is a reason why American dramas are filmed in such a way-one episode a week, and there is no way to go on location everywhere!And the cost of going out on location everywhere is so high!Do you think that the investment in American dramas can be the same as that of "Band of Brothers"?

But Jia Hongjian and the others made this movie with a large investment, of course the live-action shooting is even more pleasing.Jia Hongjian thinks so, but on the other hand, Nolan is a different kind of Hollywood guy, he usually does not use computer special effects when shooting!When he was filming "Batman" in history, a Batman's Batmobile was driving on the road, and then the clown manipulated it so that the car flew into the air and rolled over. Such a scene was directly shot on location!And without using any computer special effects!

From this point of view, this Nolan's style is still a bit similar to Cheng Long's, they both prefer to use less computer special effects and use real people to shoot real scenes!This is Nolan's own habit, which is really strange in Hollywood, but in Jia Hongjian's opinion, it doesn't matter - because just like Cheng Long's films, this kind of live-action shooting can be turned into a sideshow later. It is specially released for movie fans, other things made by computer special effects, dare to make sideshows?Dare to do all kinds of ng out?

In other words, this kind of job of scouting scenes should generally be done by the executive producer.What the executive producer does is this kind of tiring logistical work, including all kinds of on-site shooting, and then call the front station to book various accommodation places, various lunch boxes, etc., even when Ang Lee and the others are filming, they need to do various things. A kind of industrial tower crane and the like, it needs to be searched everywhere by the executive producer.But, aren't Jia Hongjian and Nolan all right now?And isn't Nolan himself temporarily acting as a producer?So of course it's a matter of course to go to collect scenery!As for Jia Hongjian, although he said he was fine, he actually wanted to watch his ideas turn into movies little by little, so of course he would try his best to follow when he had nothing important to do!

After applying for a visa to go to China first, Jia Hongjian and the others boarded a special plane and flew all the way to China.Apart from him and Nolan this time, of course Nolan's wife and Nolan's royal photographer - Wally Pfister were accompanying him.This buddy with the same name as the robot Wall-E in a certain cartoon in later generations is also Nolan’s alumni—they were both members of the “16mm” club with Nolan when they were in college.Later, after the members of this group of clubs graduated, some of them went to other jobs, and Wally became a photographer.Then, in 97, they, a group of old friends, gathered together after work to shoot a movie called "Chasing", and this movie can be said to be Nolan's debut.

After this movie, like the filming of "Memory Fragments" that is about to be represented by DreamWorks, this Wally is also in charge of the camera, and he and Nolan cooperate very well. It is estimated that if the two do not fall out, Maybe we will continue to cooperate for ten or eight years, and in the end, Wali will be like Zhang Yimou, from a photographer to a full-time director. (to be continued..)