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Chapter 246 Two Scripts
Beijing.

Feng Xiaogang didn't expect Cao Sheng to refuse right away.

After a moment of silence, he said, "No! I am not limited to making comedies. As long as the script is good, I can make other themes."

Huizhou.

Cao Sheng, in line with the principle of not offending anyone, said, "Is that so? Then when I have an inspiration and write a script suitable for you to shoot, I will contact you again."

Feng Xiaogang: "Okay! Okay! Then I'll wait for your good news?"

Cao Sheng: "Yes, sure."

The two chatted for a few more sentences and then ended the call.

When he put down his phone, several representative works of Feng Xiaogang in the original time and space flashed through Cao Sheng’s mind, such as "A World Without Thieves", "Cell Phone", "If You Are the One", etc.

But what impressed me most was his cameo appearance as a gangster boss in "Kung Fu", the character who was hacked to death by the Axe Gang boss at the beginning of the movie.

Do you want to write a script for Feng Xiaogang?

Cao Sheng was a little hesitant.

As an online writer, he is indeed not good at Feng Xiaogang's comedy style.

He is good at fairy tales and fantasy. Even when writing urban novels, he is used to writing about urban rebirth rather than pure urban comedies where the male protagonist has no golden fingers.

The golden finger is the gimmick of most online articles.

How can an online novel stand out among thousands of novels?

Gimmicks are important.

For example, rebirth; for example, the male protagonist travels to the body of an 80-year-old man at the beginning; for example, the male protagonist has excellent spiritual roots and his speed of cultivating immortals is very fast; for example, the male protagonist has the ability of photographic memory, and so on.

How can an ordinary male protagonist, without any golden fingers, attract readers from the beginning?
Looking at Feng Xiaogang's movies, the male protagonists seem to be ordinary people. Even in movies like "A World Without Thieves", the male protagonist's greatest skill is "stealing", which is not a decent skill.

But Cao Sheng knew that mainland movies of this era were generally poor.

There are not many decent commercial films in a year.

Most of the so-called famous directors make art films that cannot be released in China. After returning from abroad with awards, they are given the title of famous directors by the media.

Feng Xiaogang is a representative figure in mainland China's commercial film industry.

Feng Xiaogang's Lunar New Year films always win the box office championship during the Lunar New Year period.

Reason told Cao Sheng that writing scripts for Feng Xiaogang would be beneficial to enhancing his fame and status.

How about... write one for him?
That night.

Cao Sheng created two new documents on his computer.

One is "If You Are the One" and the other is "A World Without Thieves".

He had seen both of these movies before.

But it’s been many years since then.

He couldn't remember much about the specific plot of the movie.

But I remember what these two stories were about.

The former tells the story of an older single man going on blind dates with different women.

The latter tells the story of two thieves who set their sights on tens of thousands of dollars from an honest worker. For the sake of these tens of thousands of dollars, the two thieves used different means and clashed again and again on the train.

But in the end, one of the thieves seemed to be dead, and the other was caught by the police.

From the beginning to the end, in the eyes of the honest worker "Shagen", there are no thieves in this world. He never noticed that his tens of thousands of dollars had been lost several times, because when he got off the bus, his tens of thousands of dollars were returned.

Cao Sheng is confident that he can write a good script for If You Are the One.

Since he had experience in writing urban rebirth novels, it was not difficult for him to write a comedic blind date script.

It doesn't matter if the plot is different from the original movie. As long as the plot is interesting and there are enough laughs, it's enough.

But he wanted to write the story of "A World Without Thieves" more.

Because the confrontation between the two thieves in "A World Without Thieves" has enough dramatic conflict, with Feng Xiaogang's current fame, he can invite two or three movie emperor-level actors to play the roles.

The star effect is stronger.

It will help to improve Cao Sheng's status.

In comparison, there is almost no dramatic conflict in "If You Are the One". It is just a story about the male protagonist going on blind dates with several beautiful women. Apart from the male and female protagonists, it is difficult to invite big-name actors to play other roles.

Even if he wrote a script about love, the outside world would not have a high opinion of his screenwriting ability.

As for the box office?

As far as he can remember, both films had high box office sales.

"Forget it! Let's just get both scripts out!"

Sitting in front of the computer, Cao Sheng muttered to himself after hesitating for a while, and began to write the script for If You Are the One.

He found it easy to write this kind of blind date story. He first set up the male protagonist, and then wrote the characters of the blind date girls.

After that, it’s time to weave together the blind date stories between the male protagonist and these blind date girls.

The story is simple.

The biggest difficulty lies in how to write this story to make it more interesting?

He wrote and revised, sometimes changing the plot, sometimes changing the character of the blind date girl.

The script was completed in one night.

Compared with his efficiency in writing this script, it took him more than a week to write "A World Without Thieves", as he wrote on and off.

He remembered the general plot of the original movie, but not many details.

What impressed me most was the two thieves played by Ge You and Liu Dehua, and their different methods of peeling raw eggs when they were competing in martial arts.

And the plot where the female thief played by Li Bingbing seduces Liu Dehua.

When writing this script, Cao Sheng tried to sort out the main thread of the story from multiple angles.

First, let’s sort out this story from the perspective of the character played by Liu Dehua.

The second is to examine the overall plot from the perspective of the character played by Rene Liu.

Then, the plot was adjusted from the perspectives of the two characters Ge You and Li Bingbing.

Why do you want to do this?
Because he felt that since the script wanted to invite several big stars to star in it, the plots of the main characters had to be exciting enough.

Otherwise, why would those big stars have nothing better to do than to play a supporting role with no room for development?

Therefore, the plots of these main characters must be exciting enough to impress the big stars.

In order to achieve this, it is necessary to make these characters as flesh and blood as possible.

Stereotyped characters cannot attract stars of the level of Liu Dehua, Liu Ruoying, and Li Bingbing.

……

More than a week later.

Cao Sheng looked at the two completed scripts of "If You Are the One" and "A World Without Thieves" on the computer. After reviewing them again, he felt that there was no problem, so he picked up the phone and called Feng Xiaogang.

"Director Feng! I have finished writing the script you agreed to write with me. Please give me your email address and I will send it to you for review! If you are satisfied, we can discuss the remuneration. If not, forget it."

Feng Xiaogang: "Ah? So fast? OK! OK! I'll send you my email address by text message right away. Thank you for your hard work! Thank you! Thank you! When you come to Beijing next time, I'll treat you to roast duck!"

(End of this chapter)