058.Convocation(1/4)
"Thanks."
Upon hearing the other party's invitation, Xu Xin politely thanked him and sat at the table in the water bar where members could rest.
But he stood up again immediately:
"Please wait."
He raised his glass and took four bottles of Evian directly from the self-service area.
These are free.
It is included in the membership card.
After placing it in front of the two of them, he opened a bottle and drank it all in one breath.
Yu Feihong did not urge him, but looked at him curiously.
Wait for him to speak.
Or maybe waiting for the protein powder in your cup to cool down.
After a bottle of water temporarily quenched his thirst, Xu Xin thought about it and said:
"It's like this, Teacher Yu, I have a story in my mind. It's... a true story that happened to my dad's friend. When I heard it from him, I felt... I want to film it!"
"Um."
The woman sitting opposite Xu Xin showed that she was well-educated. Although she had doubts in her heart, she did not interrupt Xu Xin's words, but nodded to indicate that she would continue to listen.
Xu Xin continued:
"But every time I want to turn it into a script... I always get stuck. Although I also have some ideas, from the starting point to the ending, the entire story line... I am not very satisfied.
But I can't find a particularly good entry point, and I don't know how to find a suitable entry point to turn the story in my mind into... a script that satisfies me. What should I do in this situation?"
"Uh-huh……"
The woman nodded first to show that she understood, and then asked:
"Are you the director?"
Her voice was soft, and there was a gentleness rippling in it.
"I am a freshman in the directing department of Beijing Film Academy."
"……ah?"
Hearing Xu Xin's answer, Yu Feihong let out an unexpected question:
"Beiying?"
"Yes."
Xu Xin nodded in agreement.
Then I saw the other party giving a very strange look, as if he was waiting for him to say something.
"..."
Xu Xin's eyes flashed with confusion.
But she seemed to have guessed the meaning of Xu Xin's confusion, and instead of saying more, she continued:
"Can you tell me what the story is? It's a true story, right?"
"Yes……"
He nodded in agreement first and then said politely:
"Then I will waste some of your time, teacher."
"Well, it doesn't matter. Just tell me."
"Okay, that's it, I'm from northern Shaanxi, where we are..."
He began to tell about his father's brother who was a stooge.
There is actually nothing to hide, and he does not have any dark intentions such as "fear of plagiarism".
I am just asking for advice.
Of course you have to be honest with each other.
After he finished retelling his father's story, the woman thought about it and said:
"You want to remake this story, right? And...well...the difficulty is not that the story is complicated and confusing, but that as a director, when you want to create a script, you can't draw many associations from the story itself.
, because this story is essentially a story in which the legal network is fully open and justice is upheld in the end. It is a relatively single-line story, right? "
"right!"
Xu Xin's heart suddenly became hot.
Unlike my master, this teacher obviously talked about this matter from the perspective of a filmmaker.
It immediately gave him a glimmer of hope.
Looking at his eager eyes, the woman continued to nod:
"Um……"
She held the cup and thought.
The quiet elegance of time suddenly emerged, making Xu Xin suddenly curious...
What does this international movie star's work look like?
How about... go home and look for it?
This kind of thinking lasted for about a minute. Yu Feihong's eyes slowly regained focus and fell on Xu Xin again:
“Have you ever tried splitting up the characters?”
"……Um?"
Xu Xin was stunned.
Seeing that he was a little confused, the woman smiled and said:
"Then let me give you an example. As you just said, your father's brother's surname is Chang, right?"
"um, yes."
"Okay, then you can imagine... let's call him Chang. How about the story of your script with Chang as the protagonist? It tells the story of an idle member of society who suddenly became rich and quickly lost himself in the face of money and material desires.
Then he killed someone with his car and buried him on the mountain. His mentality began to change drastically and he was under tremendous pressure every day. Then the script introduced a plot to solve the case, and finally the protagonist Chang was brought to justice.
How about this entry point?”
"Well……"
As she described, Xu Xin's brows slowly wrinkled and his eyes narrowed into slits.
Idle people in society... Or to put it more intuitively, Chang was just a gangster on the road. He suddenly became rich, indulged in life, and crazy. As a result, he suddenly killed someone, and then the story was transferred to the police line.
on the road, tracing the clues... solving the case... and finally Chang was brought to justice...
This entry point...
"Frankly speaking, this entry point sounds very good...but..."
After hesitating for a moment, Xu Xin shook his head:
"Not what I want."
"That's it..."
While Xu Xin was thinking, the woman who had finished drinking the protein powder in the cup asked as if to guide:
"So is there anything you want in this story line? Something you want to express, or something fragmented."
"have."
Xu Xin nodded:
"For example, when I expressed it... I saw those people's extravagant life and so on when I was a child. People change a lot after they have money, Teacher Yu. It's really big, so big that sometimes you can't imagine that the other person can actually change.
The kind that looks like this..."
"Selfish desires are magnified, right?"
"Yeah……"
Hearing her prophetic summary, Xu Xin nodded even more frequently.
But at this moment, I suddenly heard her say:
"Look, the sudden contradiction between the rich and the poor that you wanted to express has come out."
"Well……"
Looking at the boy who was suddenly stunned, she smiled slightly:
"The contradiction between the rich and the poor, the mentality of the poor, the mentality of the rich. The mentality of the poor when they see the hope of becoming rich when they have no money, the mentality of the rich who have money but are unkind and ambitious and defy the law...these poverty and wealth
To be continued...