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Chapter 904 The Genre and Style of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern"
Zhou Xia ignored Xiaohu and let her visit inside, while he continued to look at the documents in hand.

Xia Hua Film and Television will shoot these projects in the first half of next year. Before he goes to the United States the day after tomorrow, he must go through them all.

I don't have time to communicate with the directors and production directors of several project teams in detail, at least I have to talk to Zhang Zhao about the general opinion.

"Ghost Blowing the Lantern" is a series of movies, and the first one has too much influence on the subsequent sequels.

Zhou Xia must check it out.

And now there are still big differences in the type of film, the style of photography, and the entire creative team.

It may be difficult to take into account the international market.

The tomb-robbing culture in China has become popular because of works such as "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" and "Tomb Raiders Notes", and it is not a big genre or theme.

It is very difficult to take into account the international situation, especially some of the rules spread by the Tomb Raider sect and the mysticism of Tomb Raiders, which are very difficult for foreign audiences to understand.

If it becomes a traditional treasure hunt theme, it will make the story of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" lose its charm.

Originally created by the author of the original story, the four major genres of tomb robbery, unloading mountains, hair hills, and moving mountains, as well as ancient tombs and legends of gods and ghosts, create a unique mysterious and suspenseful world of tomb robbery.

The entire "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" series of novels does not have any major logical loopholes. It has constructed a complete and rigorous view of the universe of tomb robbers, which is self-contained and extremely real.

Its root is the mysterious and ancient culture of tomb robbery, as well as legends of ghosts and ghosts.

However, the author also combined tomb robbery with the real world through chatting with popular antiques and historical figures, and then through literary processing, beautification, and processing, he systematically created the current genre and system of tomb robbery.

In the original time and space, due to various reasons, the original author's influence on his book was not estimated to be popular enough, and the copyright of the first book sold at a loss.

For the next few films, he will completely treat them as a business, selling the film and television adaptation rights at will.

He didn't even keep the bottom line that he couldn't modify his own works at will.

As a result, a certain director made a bottomless adaptation of the original work, using the name of the original "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" to attract fans, but he created a monster movie himself.

What's more, his movie is not "Ghost Blowing Out the Lamp". This kind of behavior has aroused the indignation of huge book fans, and they are also very disappointed with the author.

But this time and space are different. Zhou Xia bought the related copyrights of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" from other companies at a large price as early as the company's establishment.

The original author's follow-up books also signed a copyright agreement with Xiahua Film and Television, and Xiahua Film and Television also guaranteed the author's higher income in film and television adaptations.

Therefore, apart from Xiahua Film and Television, there is no other company that can make the movie "Ghost Blowing the Lantern".

Xia Hua Film and Television also only made the web series "Tomb Raiders Notes", and didn't even plan to do the web series "Ghost Blowing the Lantern", and planned to concentrate on making movies first.

The novel "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" has a huge fan base and influence.

With the success of filming like a song, the proportion of these loyal book fans and fans converted into ticket-buying audiences is bound to be higher.

These book fans and fans have a higher conversion rate than popular youth romance novels, as well as big IPs such as "Zhu Xian" and "Sword of Heaven".

The "Nine-story Demon Tower", which was so popular, won nearly 2015 million box office in the National Day file in [-].

If it wasn't linked to the original book for publicity, and it was the first movie in the "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" series, book fans would want to see it.

As far as the director's self-proclaimed story and movie title, even if the movie's special effects are so-so, the box office probably won't exceed [-] million.

Later, Pain Xun Video washed away the experience and lessons when doing online dramas.

The "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" series of web dramas has been widely acclaimed, with billions of hits and attracted a large number of VIP users.

Other directors and screenwriters are filming honestly according to the original work, basically without making too many changes.

Now Xiahua Film and Television is adapting movies, which are different from making online dramas, and the creation is restricted by some factors of censorship.

However, on the basis of not affecting the overall plot, slight adaptations or reasonable modifications are believed to be acceptable to book fans and audiences.

In addition to the beautification and mythology of the tomb-robbing culture in the original work for the sake of creation, in fact, the three views are very positive.

In fact, it is a fantasy novel based on the culture of tomb robbers.

In comparison, it’s actually similar to comprehension novels that exaggerate the magic and exercises of Taoism and Buddhism to the point of flying into the sky and hiding from the ground, omnipotent.

Moreover, the protagonists in the book "Ghost Blowing the Lantern", these few inherited tomb robbers, have been beautified, and most of the most vicious tomb robbers who only seek money have been satirized and criticized.

So generally speaking, all points of the original work stand up, and there are no so-called major flaws.

The key issue of script adaptation is filmization, rationalizing some parts that cannot pass the review.

Before the movie is shot, the cast must be selected to set up this big IP.

It can't be like that time and space, there are as many as a dozen versions of Hu Bayi, Fatty Wang, and Shirley Yang in various versions.

It greatly weakened the influence of the original work, distracted fans' consumption enthusiasm and attention.

According to the original author, Hu Bayi was conceived based on Zhong Yuemin played by President Huohua in "Blood Romance".

Therefore, the image of Hu Bayi that many fans of the original book brought into the book is the president, and this role image is very specific.

Hu Bayi and Zhong Yue have a lot in common. They usually seem to be foolish, not serious, and play tricks to attract girls.

But at critical times, he is brave and loyal, can hold the field, shoulders the burden, and has the character of courage to sacrifice.

If it weren't for President Liu's older age, this series of movies would take more than ten years to shoot. In fact, Zhou Xia and the entire project team wanted to directly use him as the leading actor.

Apart from the actors, that is the overall atmosphere and style of filming.

The main scenes of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" are tombs, various ancient tombs, in the mountains, underground, underwater, etc.

Therefore, the overall atmosphere needs to create a sense of mystery. The scene does not need to be grand, let alone beautiful. Everything must be created based on mystery and weirdness.

The style of photography and the composition of the screen should also serve the atmosphere. The characters encounter various strange events in the process of robbing the tomb to promote the story.

This mysterious and weird atmosphere is very good at capturing fans and audiences in movie theaters.

Most horror thrillers abuse background sounds and musical elements in order to create a scary atmosphere.

"Ghost Blowing Out the Lantern" is not a horror film, so naturally it doesn't need to do this, but it has something in common, and we can learn from some horror movies.

Later, there was a horror movie called "A Quiet Place" in 2018, which is a good case.

By setting the background of the story in this movie, people in the whole town cannot make any noise, otherwise monsters will be attracted.

Therefore, people must carefully silence their voices in their lives, often because of sudden voices, their emotions are highly tense.

And the rules left by the tomb robbers in "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" are similar to this setting, which can create a horror atmosphere very well.

What, just don't fight backwards in the middle of the day, don't touch gold when the cock crows and the lamp goes out, people light candles, ghosts blow lamps and so on.

As long as these rules are violated during tomb robbery, it will be like someone making a noise in "A Quiet Place", and monsters will come out at any time.

Not only the protagonists in the movie, but also the audience will be affected by this atmosphere, and their spirits will be tense, and they will follow the actions of the protagonists throughout the process.

"Wow, "Ghost Blowing Out the Lantern", I want to act!"

Zhou Xia is looking at the details of the "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" project, such as the shooting style, atmosphere creation, and casting considerations.

Suddenly, Xiaohu's surprise voice sounded from behind, and he couldn't help being frightened and his heart skipped a beat.

(End of this chapter)