Coquettish Rebirth

After Jia Hongjian turned his head to discuss with Katzenberg for a while, he said to Abrams, "Okay, you can go back and write down the outline and outline of the play." "God, thank you! Thank you! I I will definitely not let you down! I promise!" Abrams apparently did not expect that after coming here, he would get such a good opportunity, and he would not have to write a "proposition composition" or follow the production company's proposition. , but you can follow your own thinking. Is there anything better than this?

After Abrams turned around happily and left, Katzenberg asked quite unexpectedly, "Is he that good?" This question surprised Jia Hongjian, "It's pretty good." , but why do you ask?" "Because you would rather not let him run your own ideas, but let him try to run his own ideas. So either you fancy him and want to sleep with him, or he is really good at it." Great...so...do you want to sleep with him?" Who knew Katzenberg asked like this.At that time, Jia Hongjian gave Katzenberg a middle finger, "I mainly want to see if this guy has the ability to tell a story. To be honest, if the story he told is not strong enough to tell a story, After watching three or five episodes, I don’t want to watch it. The story itself is really not good. The main thing is to see if it’s told well. If it’s told well, it’s okay to deceive the audience for a few years... In other words, if this person really If he has this kind of storytelling ability, wouldn't it be better to let him make other films? So why don't we save the good ideas and let him practice with his bad ideas..."

Jia Hongjian commented that this kind of "Lost" and other films are "bad", mainly because this kind of story line is too big.When it gets too big, it’s easy to get out of control, and then there’s no way to solve it reasonably.In the end it turned into a piece of crap!According to Jia Hongjian's understanding of American TV dramas, even a film like "Breaking Bad" is just thinking of such a plot in less than two seasons at the very beginning, and the rest is to shoot while filming. While thinking about it, there were still various problems during filming. For example, in the second half of "Breaking Bad", the big boss of a drug trafficking group used fried chicken chain restaurants as a cover. A plot was actually thought up at the end of the first season, and it was a character added temporarily.And then picked the leader!

Therefore, Jia Hongjian did not believe that Abrams had a full set of ideas before he could make "Lost", and such a huge film must have a full set of ideas to complete it!For example, if you don’t think about why such a plane crashed and no one rescued it, why all kinds of strange things happened, if you don’t understand all these puzzles at the beginning, and just rely on shooting and thinking, then The chaotic filming that must be filmed cannot be justified, and even turned in various ridiculous directions in the end-it has to be explained by a series of things such as mysticism, aliens, and fantasy.In Jia Hongjian's view, this kind of explanation is a manifestation of the "screw up" of the main creators.Otherwise, there were no films showing fantasy and mysticism at all before, and all kinds of unimaginable monsters suddenly appeared after shooting for a few seasons. What's the matter?Even patted and patted and let everyone discover that everyone actually traveled through time after the plane crashed... Isn't this absurd?Do you really think this screenwriting method can fool the audience?

Not only "Lost", but also the film "4400" - this film is about a thing that was originally thought to be a comet that was about to hit the earth, but who knew that it was about to hit the earth when it ran into the United States? When it hit, it was floating in the air or something.Anyway, 4400 people were put down at once!These 4400 people seem to have been "arrested" from different eras. The earliest was arrested in 1946, and some were arrested only a few years later, and then this group of people perfectly maintained the state when they were arrested. !

In fact, isn't such a stuff just close to the various strange stories in the United States that alien spacecraft kidnap people on earth for research?Then "4400" also began to describe the stories of various people among the 4400 people, and then it showed that these people gradually seemed to have the ability to write strange things-in fact, it was a bit off the mark when it was filmed here!Later, it was discovered that these people were originally captured by future humans.After being taken away, their brains or cerebellums were cultivated, anyway, it was to give them special functions.Can save the planet... Hey, isn't this ridiculous?Let's try to make up stories, okay?

It's really not that Jia Hongjian is picky. Everything is left to aliens and future humans, and the earth will be destroyed every now and then. Do you Americans have any creativity?Have been playing these memes for decades, aren't you tired?The direction of these plots is exaggerated, a junior high school student who has watched American blockbusters for seven or eight years can make it up!Why do those main creators still get such high salaries?It's up to Jia Hongjian to figure it out, no matter what he does, he must make it in a different direction from others!For example, when it comes to the plot of "4400", he will definitely not shoot something that is released by humans in the future to prevent the destruction of the earth.On the contrary, he might film it as a "trojan horse" brought over by aliens, in order to let these people mix into human society by virtue of their human appearance and thinking, and then turn around and kill all the people on earth instead of aliens!

These 4400 people are just like killers and fighters with human memory and mind, wearing human skin to exterminate human beings, and may even spread various strange viruses and the like!Isn't this kind of apocalyptic rhythm better than some future humans letting them back to save the world?Because just such a stalk of saving the world will make people know that the next battle must be a super power battle!And something like a super power battle is a harbinger of a bad ending!Like "Heroes", an American drama about people with superpowers, isn't it still after the popularity of the first season, the second season began to weaken, and the popularity of the third season was completely low?

So it's not that Jia Hongjian thinks too highly of himself. He watched so many American dramas in his previous life, how can he have the appreciation level of a senior American drama fan?Basically, he felt that the American audience felt the same way when the plot was getting more and more chaotic, so basically the ratings survey at this time was going all the way down!Even with the addition of the second and third seasons of some American dramas, the overall plot has changed from stunning in the first season to mediocrity and then into an old woman's foot wrap. It really can't be too high. It can be proved that when they dug the hole, they didn't even think about how to fill such a hole at all, but were simply forced to go by the update. Regardless of the 21, they dug first, and then filled the hole later, then we will talk about it at that time!Under such circumstances, it is a common thing that the quality of the first season is high and the quality is low later, and it is even possible to doubt the IQ of the screenwriters as it progresses!

It can be said that at this time, Jia Hongjian's whole thinking has become much clearer—at first he wanted to provide an idea himself, and then let the operators of these drama series do it, let them arrange the plot in the future, and let them find various ideas. A screenwriter to write.But now that I think about it, it's unreliable to hand it over to them completely, and they might mess around someday!So it seems that Jia Hongjian must at least come up with a roughly complete set of plot skeletons, so that the screenwriters will not go too far, so as not to ruin Jia Hongjian's good ideas!

Of course, there will be other problems in this way. For example, Jia Hongjian had set the ending in advance, but the ratings before the ending were extremely high, and the TV station did everything possible to persuade this episode to continue filming to make money.But there is no banquet in the world that lasts forever, serious American dramas have been filmed for 10 seasons and 8 seasons, and many of them have been disbanded!Who said you have to just shoot down regardless?Even if we can make more money by filming, why don’t we stop filming?Can't we not make this money?Not to mention, who said that you can't shoot after the main plot is over?There are still a lot of spin-offs in the United States!What is the so-called derivative play?In short, the main plot of such a story is almost done, and it may be over, but the producer doesn’t want to give up the hen that lays golden eggs, so he will use the corpse to revive his soul, such as taking out the more popular characters in the play alone Telling his own story, this is a derivative play.It can also be said that after the protagonist's story, that is, the main story is over, several supporting characters are picked out separately to form a story similar to the main story.In this way, there are spin-off dramas as a guarantee for attracting money, so are you afraid that the main story will end too early and make too little money?Impossible to be afraid of!

Here Jia Hongjian thought so much, but in fact the time passed was very short, just a minute.Just after Jia Hongjian reconfirmed his mind, another interviewer came over there.The person interviewed has dark blonde hair that is a little disheveled, a thin body with a humanistic atmosphere and a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, which immediately catches people's attention. This person in front of him is a very literary person , much like a writer!

"Gentlemen, my name is Vince Gilligan. I used to write the screenplay for "X-Files", and later wrote the screenplay for the movie "Running Forward". I have been resting for the past two years, spending time with my family, and not doing much work. I don't know why you two called me here today?" This very literary writer asked modestly.Vince... Gilligan?Vince...huh?This person seems to be the main creator of "Breaking Bad"!That's right!This person's name is quite unique, so Jia Hongjian always remembers it, and he still remembers that this person actually wrote the screenwriter for the most popular American drama "X-Files" in the 90s!Such a screenwriter of "Breaking Bad" later came?Should Jia Hongjian entrust him with the idea of ​​"Desperate Boss"?