Coquettish Rebirth

Jia Hongjian and the others began to seriously write scripts.Writing this script was also quite troublesome.Although with Jia Hongjian's guidance, many scenes can be done, but the problem is that there are still too many stories he wants to cram into the script, and even if some of these stories are based on other movies, even if some are based on Social reality, but after all, they have nothing to do with each other.I really want them to blend together perfectly, which is really a waste of effort.

And in the case of this fusion, various additional possibilities will burst out, which slows down the script writing.For example, Jia Hongjian and the others tentatively set Liang Chaowei's character as coming from a big gangster family, but his parents divorced early, so he has been living with his mother, but he can still see those criminal relatives from time to time.Later, after his father died, he cut off all contact with his relatives and prepared to become a policeman.Originally, it seemed that this was to make up for the loopholes in Infernal Affairs 1 and 2, right?Then you can let this character go undercover?

But after setting this character’s uncle or uncle as Zeng Zhiwei’s character, and after hearing Jia Hongjian say whether such a character might be undercover for 9 years, Nolan suddenly asked a question—— "Can we set the opening scene to be that a larger guy who is similar to the godfather died, leaving a huge power vacuum? At the same time, the death of the godfather may be caused by the enemy, or it may be that someone in such a similar alliance camp I wanted to get it from the top. For a while, everyone in the alliance was in danger and at the same time gearing up. Everyone wanted to expand their territory and sphere of influence... Then one of the protagonists was ordered to guide their own small gang to become the leader. Become the one in power Godfather? Doesn’t this make the drama more tense?”

This feeling puts the plots of "Underworld 2" and "Infernal Affairs" together? "However, the dramatic tension is enough in this way. Will there be too many highlights, and instead the audience's attention will be shifted to the underworld struggle instead of the two undercover agents?" Jia Hongjian raised such an objection.That's right, what they're filming isn't a gangster epic, and it's not about gangsters fighting each other, it's about two undercover agents!

If the general situation is too attractive, then it will be difficult for the audience to focus on these two undercover agents, right?At the same time, there is not so much space to describe the hearts and personalities of these two protagonists, so speaking of it is a bit overwhelming!So even though Jia Hongjian and the others said that they can throw ideas into the script as they please.But at the end.The idea was not thrown in either.

When writing a rough outline of the plot, Nolan suddenly asked Jia Hongjian a question, "Mr. Jia, for our film, should we make a good box office or... win an Oscar?" His question made Jia Hongjian Quite curious. "Why do you ask? Can't we do both?" That's right.Even a film like "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" can get 5% of the investment in the box office, so why does Nolan have to choose between the box office and the Oscars?Isn't Nolan himself good at combining business and literature?

After Jia Hongjian's rhetorical question, Nolan also understood what he meant.After a self-deprecating smile, he said: "Then if we want to go to the Oscars, through my thinking these days, we still have to do some things, such as trying to be as close to the facts as possible. It is not necessarily necessary to put the latest It should be included, but it must reflect a little bit of reality. You can’t completely talk about fictional things. After all, Oscar’s old guys are all academics, and they are all leftist, and they pay attention to criticizing the real society. .For example, talk about class fixation, or the struggle of human nature, or encouragement... This style is easier to get Oscar nominations, or even win awards..."

After Nolan said this, Jia Hongjian suddenly had an idea in his head—could it be the reason why the American version of "Infernal Affairs" won the Oscar for Best Picture?In the American version of the film, Jia Hung-chien remembered that at the beginning, he said that 20 years ago, the Irish in South Boston could not find jobs, and no one wanted to hire Irish people.In the end, he started his career by relying on violence, and then slowly got better.Although the background of the whole story is not in the 80s, at the beginning, there were one or two shots that captured the scenes of the 80s.At that time, the small car made by black children was thrown with stones... Could it be that this film was favored by Oscar because it talked about this kind of realistic "background" that few people talked about in the past?

Jia Hongjian once heard from colleagues in the United States that before the "strike hard" a few years ago, the gangs of Irish descendants in the south of Boston were also very arrogant.So what is added in the film, "Your father is a dock worker, then you can either be a policeman or a gatekeeper..." Does this reflect the class solidification in the United States?Although he was not completely inclined in this direction, Jia Hongjian vaguely remembered that when "Liu Dehua" played by Matt Damon bought a big apartment in the film, the agent didn't believe that he could afford it.Then in the end, after "Liang Chaowei" was killed, Matt Damon returned to his apartment and saw the neighbor lady taking the puppy out at the elevator door. He wanted to tease the dog, but who would have thought that the woman would just take the dog out? Pull away, don't let Matt Damon tease at all!

Is it because the film reflects the class solidification of the United States through such details, or does it indirectly imply that the "American Dream" is all fart, in fact, how one is born in the United States basically determines how other people in society see this person, It also basically determines the life class of this person in the future?This is not to say that Jia Hongjian can make random associations and extensions like reading Chinese textbooks in middle school. In fact, if you think about it carefully, after the outbreak of the subprime mortgage crisis, the Occupy Wall Street movement in the United States is not actually a kind of common people's concern for class. Oppressive resistance?

What are the common people in the United States mainly resisting?It was after they went to college that the heavy student loans made them unable to repay them at all!Unlike China, student loans are very cheap, but in the United States, student loans are very expensive, because most of the good schools are private, and even a kilometer school costs more than 1 to 99 US dollars a year, and private schools are even more expensive. It's $30 to $50!In addition, there is no discount on interest rates, and it is not very easy to find a job. How can college students find a job when they come out?But the rich are different. Rich people can go to good schools without student loans. This is different!Like the so-called "[-]%" people who are almost [-] years old and don't have a formal job. They have to do odd jobs to make money all day long, but after counting their fingers, they find that the student loan will be changed to [-] years old!In this way, how can we be full of hope for society?

Although this kind of complaining and Occupy Wall Street movement came out after 08, if you think about it carefully, is it completely fine on the US side now?There must be an introduction, and there must be some signs of it, but because the overall economic situation is not bad, so the contradictions are not as sharp as they seem!So when the American version of "Infernal Affairs" mentioned this matter in history, Americans immediately felt empathy, and then gave various praises?

Maybe it's because of this!Of course, Jia Hongjian has also heard another saying, that is, the old horse who made the American version of Infernal Affairs, because he has been nominated for Best Picture and Best Director many times over the past few decades, but he never won an award. !Just like the "Little Plum" Leonardo of later generations, this Leonardo's acting skills are really good, but after more than ten years, he has not won the Oscar winner!No matter how popular it is!So in the end, the Oscar looked at the old horse as he was getting old, and in the end it was like giving a series of awards similar to the "Lifetime Achievement Award" to the old horse's "Infernal Affairs".

For this statement, Jia Hongjian felt that it was impossible to take care of it completely.Even if you have to take care of it, the Oscars are not without awards such as the Lifetime Achievement Award. They can be awarded to old horses. Even if there is a little care, the quality of the person must make Americans feel good, right?Otherwise, do you want Oscar's own face?Should their judging criteria be questioned?At the same time, Jia Hongjian's later generations have seen the rankings of Rotten Tomatoes in the United States. At that time, the evaluation of the American version of Infernal Affairs was quite good, with a freshness rate of over 90%, and most people rated it as A-grade!What does this mean? It means that everyone in the United States who has seen this film thinks it is good!That's why Jia Hung-chien wondered whether this thing made Americans so excited because it reflected some American realities that Chinese people don't understand.

So thinking of this, Jia Hongjian really thought about whether to add something like class solidification to the film with Nolan that only Americans can empathize with?Then, should we change the setting of the background to become "Liang Chaowei" because he didn't want to be a policeman?No no no... Or should he want to be a policeman, and he wants to be an fbi after college, but because of financial reasons, he wants to be a policeman first?Because the loan is too much, if you go out to do odd jobs to repay the loan, you won’t have time to review the civil service and fbi exams?When going undercover, it can also be said that you have passed the written test, but failed the interview, and then failed to become a reserve police officer to train, and finally committed a crime because of the loan?

Then "Liu Dehua" is because "Zeng Zhiwei" provided him with a full set of funds, allowing him to go to college and then apply for a certificate to become a policeman?Do you want him to be a technical investigator stationed in the serious crime team of organized crime investigation?In this way, it is easy to tip off the news?Through these various settings, link the story of "Infernal Affairs" with the social reality in the United States?In this way, through various designs, it should be able to achieve an effect that makes Americans feel sympathetic? (To be continued..)