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Chapter 369 Talking about the script, please help

The three met in a high-end western restaurant outside the Laijin Cultural Park.

Inside the restaurant, the exquisite decoration and design are full of western style. The waiter opened the door. As soon as Zhou Xia walked in, she saw Fan Meiniang and director Li Yu sitting by the window talking.

The two stood up and greeted him politely and shook hands.

Fan Meiniang wore sunglasses, a British-style pink lapel woolen coat, a gray scarf, and a dark red dress underneath. She looked younger and cuter, dressed as if she was out for a street shoot.

Li Yu next to her was dressed more ordinaryly, wearing a thin black down jacket, with long hair hanging loose, and only light makeup.

After Zhou Xia shook hands with the two politely and greeted them, the three sat down, and Fan Meiniang introduced Li Yu to Zhou Xia grandly.

After the polite greetings were over, Li Yu took out a script and handed it to Zhou Xia.

"Zhou Xia, don't be in such a hurry to read the script. It's already twelve o'clock. I'm here to order. Let's have something to eat first. What do you want?" Fan Meiniang asked grandly while picking up the menu.

She had already taken off her sunglasses. Although Zhou Xia didn't take off her hat, she didn't wear sunglasses. The waiters and a few customers in the shop still recognized them.

But these people were very restrained and did not come up to disturb them.

"It's okay, I'm a quick reader. If you want to eat, I want filet steak, medium rare, and you can figure out the rest!" Zhou Xia continued to read the script without raising his head.

"Okay." After Fan Meiniang agreed, she began to order food from the waiter at the side.

I ordered caviar and baked snails for appetizers, and then ordered soup, main course, and dessert.

When she saw Zhou Xia driving here, she ordered him a cup of coffee without ordering wine.

Zhou Xia flipped through the script quickly. He had seen the movie "Double Exposure". The movie was just like that. Many people were confused and didn't know what to say.

This movie was also a commercial failure of Li Yu's transformation. After she and Fan Meiniang co-produced the third movie, they parted ways...

But the script is still different from the movie. In order to be more convincing when rejecting others later, Zhou Xia carefully read the script.

When the appetizers were served, Zhou Xia had finished one-third of the [-]-word script.

He mainly looks for the deleted parts in the movie, and he can read things at a glance, so naturally he is very fast.

Li Yu and Fan Meiniang saw that Zhou Xia had read the beginning and the end first, and then flipped through the script, looking at each other, feeling very dissatisfied.

Zhou Xia was too perfunctory. At this time, the appetizers were served, and the three of them picked up their knives and forks and began to eat.

Fan Meiniang opened her mouth and said tentatively, "Zhou Xia, you've read almost a third of the script, do you have any ideas?"

"I really have an idea!"

Zhou Xia understood that the two were probing, put down the knife and fork, wiped her mouth with a napkin, and said seriously: "There are a lot of intimate scenes."

"..."

The two women rolled their eyes angrily, put down the tableware in such a serious manner, and wiped their mouths before speaking, but they said such words.

As expected, no matter how young a man is, he still pays close attention to this kind of thing!

"Intimate scenes are all needed for the plot. What about the others? What about the story? With your talent in writing and screenwriting, don't be polite if you have any questions." Li Yu asked politely, not continuing the topic.

Although she has won many international and domestic film awards, except for the Dongying Film Festival, which is a bit important, other awards are average.

These days, how can those awards compare with the box office?

Zhou Xia is now the third domestic director with [-] million yuan!
Zhou Xia was thinking about why he refused, and when he heard this question, he couldn't wait for it.

He sorted out his thoughts, and tried his best to say euphemistically: "I don't like this script very much. The story is complicated, the reversal is mediocre, and the whole style is inconsistent. Both artistic pursuit and commercial considerations are..."

Zhou Xia stopped talking.

"How to say?" Fan Meiniang looked at Zhou Xia seriously. This is Li Yu's transformation into a commercial production. Her salary was confiscated, so it was considered an investment!

"First of all, the name does not match the story, which is easy to be misunderstood. Second exposure? Just looking at the name, ordinary viewers understand it literally. What kind of incident is it that finally revealed the truth again? It is full of suspense and is very curious, but the result?

It turns out that everything is in the fantasy and dream of the heroine, so this reversal is either a success or a failure. It does not meet the audience's expectations for the story, so naturally it will not be recognized by the audience!

Furthermore, the narrative of the story is too complicated. Reality, dreams, hallucinations, three-line narrative, the audience will really struggle. This is the most fatal point. As a professional, if I don’t read the script and have text to introduce the scene, I can't tell whether the heroine Song Qi is dreaming, hallucinating, or actually killing people.

If this is shown in the movie, I can guarantee that 80.00% of the audience will be confused during the movie watching process. Even if the ending is reversed and the truth is revealed, I estimate that half of the audience who are not careful will not understand! "

After Zhou Xia finished speaking, Li Yu looked embarrassed and Fan Meiniang looked embarrassed.

He simply stopped talking and lowered his head to eat the appetizer.

The atmosphere was a little awkward.

Li Yu opened his mouth a few times, but finally couldn't hold back: "Zhou Xia, isn't it too early for you to draw conclusions like this? When we make movies, there are many props and plots that will help the audience distinguish reality, dreams, and hallucinations." Yes. I think after "Inception" and "Master of Hypnotism", domestic audiences will not seem to have trouble with our film!"

"Perhaps. I can really understand it after reading it twice. After all, the story goes around and around, and the timeline lasts for more than ten years, but in the final analysis, it is actually very simple!
She is just a plastic surgeon with schizophrenia, because she saw her mother killed by her father when she was a child, and her schizophrenia caused her to have hallucinations, fantasizing about a girlfriend who didn't exist, fantasizing about her girlfriend having an affair with her boyfriend, fantasizing about her killing her girlfriend and adoptive father, etc.What do you think the audience will think when they understand it? "

"What do you think?" Fan Meiniang asked first.

"is this necessary?"

After Zhou Xia finished speaking, regardless of the expressions of the two, "How does a sick girl get out of hallucinations? Personally, I'm disappointed with this script.

Compared with director Li Yu's previous works, such as the touching abnormal love literary masterpiece "Red Beauty", and "Apple" which depicts small people in realism, this book is not as good as "Guanyin Mountain" except that it is still a female theme.

The story is complicated and chaotic, the rhythm is protracted, sad and depressing, and it is almost moaning without illness. Apart from letting everyone know that there is such a strange schizophrenia and delusional murder, I don't understand what this movie is pursuing?
In the pursuit of commercial success, cheating, thrilling and murderous gimmicks are still a selling point, but in the end it becomes a routine of literary movies, which is really neither fish nor fowl. "

After Zhou Xia finished speaking, she looked at the two people in astonishment, and smiled slightly: "Director Li Yu and Sister Mei Niang, don't blame me for being outspoken. I'm just talking about the script and story. Maybe it will be very different when it is made into a movie. possible."

Li Yu and Fan Meiniang looked at each other. At first they thought Zhou Xia was exaggerating, but after thinking about it for a while, they felt that it made sense.

Li Yu wanted to transform into a commercial director, and Zhou Xia was obviously qualified to say so in this regard.

After all, his "Charlotte" is still in theaters, and it has achieved great success at the box office!

Li Yu frowned slightly, "This script was written by Fang Li. He has collaborated with us on two films. It is the first time to write a commercial script. It is indeed not perfect, but Zhou, you are very good at this, Director Zhou. I wonder if you can help Perfect the script?"

"That's right, Zhou Xia, your screenwriting skills are so strong, and the TV series and movies you wrote are very successful. Now that you see the problem with the script, please help to change the script..."

Fan Meiniang's voice was soft, her beautiful eyes were shining with anticipation, and she looked at Zhou Xia.

　First more.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)