Chapter 3: Fiction: Home Alone
The night passed like this.
Li Xuechu found that as long as he was in this room, he would always involuntarily expect the sudden arrival of the space-time tunnel, although he knew that the probability was slim. It was even more rare than winning the first prize once. Two consecutive times? Dreaming!
"It's not a solution to continue like this. I don't have the heart to write a book anymore." Li Xuechu decided that he could no longer waste time on such low-probability things. "If the rent expires, move out."
Li Xuechu picked up his mobile phone and searched carefully the information stored in it. The most stored songs on his mobile phone were songs, including Chinese, Cantonese, Japanese, Korean, European and American, and a total of two or three hundred songs.
Li Xuechu usually listens to music in a lot of ways, and he feels that he can listen to everything he is good at. The music player also sets the functions of listening while listening. Unfortunately, they are basically from the new century and it may not be popular to sell it now. Besides, he doesn’t even recognize the simplified score. It’s too weird to create songs with different styles one by one. Let’s leave this for the future.
Secondly, there are various softwares. These things are useless to me now, but there is no need to delete them. Who knows when they will come in handy? Maybe it will be a lot of money.
With a few more movies, the wireless networks in later generations have developed, which has led to Li Xuechu who basically watch movies online. These movies were used to relieve boredom before traveling through time. Unfortunately, they are all European and American science fiction blockbusters. Not to mention Xiangjiang, Hollywood can't make them. But adapting the movie into a novel and presenting those big scenes vividly in front of readers in the form of words is still difficult for Li Xuechu, who is still a rookie in the online literature. Let's talk about it later.
Sadly, there are not a single novel by the Internet masters on my mobile phone. That's right, I used to read online, basically I haven't downloaded it, and I forgot it after reading it. Some classic novels have been read several times and I am deeply impressed by the ** part. But I really have to recall the novel and I was confused when I wrote it on paper! I can remember the general plot, but I can't write the effect of the original work. I obviously drew it in the way of looking at the horse, but when I draw it, I look at it, but I look like a mule.
I threw down the pen in dejectedly, forget it, and it would not ruin the classics. I would implement the original plan and adapt all kinds of hit movies from later generations into novels. The length of movies is generally 90 minutes and 120 minutes. If it is adapted into a novel, the number of words can generally be controlled within 200,000 words, which is quite suitable for practicing.
I decided to adapt the movies in later generations, and the next thing I want to choose the subject matter. Science fiction? In the future, Hollywood has produced many exciting science fiction movies, such as the Matrix, Transformers, and Avatar. However, these adaptations are a bit difficult, so let's put them in the future.
There are also some soft science fiction, Inception, butterfly effect, source code, etc., but at present, science fiction fans are still niche in Hong Kong. In fact, it is not necessarily the case. After all, the Wesley series is quite popular now. Maybe it is just lacking good works, but it is still released. Transformers seems to have animations jointly produced by Hasbro, the American company in 1984, and this is a big gold mine. Once it was launched, it was immediately popular all over the world. The robot toys that can turn into cars and planes conquered children around the world as soon as they were put on the shelves. If he could be made in advance, billionaires would be indispensable, and they will continue to flourish from 1984 to 14.
When I was a child, I also bought Transformers toys and watched animations. But unfortunately, I don’t know how to draw comics. Just using words to describe them will not create such a sensational effect. Forget it, there are still a few years left, and then I will see how to get a share of this big cake.
Where is the magic? The Lord of the Rings novel version has been available. Harry Potter has only read two before, and I can't remember the specific plot clearly, so I can't adapt it. The Pirates of the Caribbean are OK, but I'll write it later.
Let’s write some simpler and relaxed comedy first. Now is the explosion stage of Hong Kong movies. Hong Kong movies will be popular in Asia in the next decade, and the box office markets in Taiwan, Southeast Asia, Japan and South Korea are quite good. However, in the early stages, there are basically not many companies that dare to launch large-scale movies, and low-cost movies are still the mainstream of the market.
Writing funny stories that do not require too many scenes or large scenes is easier to gain the favor of film companies, and they are quickly adapted into movies to make money. The box office market in Hong Kong seems to have a special liking for comedy movies. As long as the plot is not bad, good comedy almost doesn’t have to worry about the market, and other types are not necessarily the case. Classics can also fail, and sometimes good movies do not represent high box office, especially literary and artistic ones.
The other two magic weapons of Xiangjiang movies: action movies and police and gangster movies are not yet in a hurry, so I will talk about this for two years.
After choosing the subject, which article should I "create" first?
There are a lot of classic comedy in later generations, but first of all, it must be close to the current environment. There are more props such as computers, Internet, mobile phones, karaoke, etc. It is definitely not possible. Most of the big brothers are still emerging things. It is best to have the main scene in some simple houses, or the phone is enough to contact the outside world, and there are fewer main characters.
I narrowed the scope of the subject and passed the movies in my mind, and after most of them were eliminated, a movie I watched as a child slowly emerged.
"Haha, just write this." Li Xuechu finally chose the movie. He sat down calmly, moved out of the traditional Chinese dictionary, spread out the manuscript paper, and began to write the title of the novel: Little Imperial!
The original novel, surrounded by many high-cost science fiction movies in 1990s, created a global box office miracle of $530 million at a small cost. The main scene is a house with a child and two stupid thieves.
The plot is also simple: when the eight-year-old Lezai was out for Christmas, she accidentally left him at home in panic, making him the head of the family overnight. Lezai was so happy that he did not interfere with the adults, and she played his best at home, decorating his home into a fun place in his mind.
But what he didn't know was that two thieves who had just come out of prison had already set their sights on his home and had completed the "investigation work", intending to rob the house when no one was around Christmas. The two thieves and a child met unexpectedly in the house, and started a series of cat and mouse games around the house.
Lezai dealt with the thief and "entered" these two uninvited guests. While the little ghost Lezai used the game trap to fight against these two bandits, the entire house was disrupted. The two stupid thieves were fooled by the witty children, and their situation was continuous and laughter came out one after another. The final result was of course the child successfully defended his home, and the stupid thief was finally arrested.
Well, remember the main plot and various funny points clearly. There is no cultural difference in films of this kind of theme. Readers and viewers from the East and the West can basically understand it. It is also a series.
After this movie is successful, you can also write the sequel together. Xiangjiang movies are currently following the trend. Once the movie is successful, similar themes will appear continuously. If you are not lucky, you may even have a collision with your own follow-up story.
First, he compiled the general plot, and used traditional Chinese characters that he didn't know were simplified in the first place, and completed 20,000 to 30,000 words in one go. Li Xuechu looked at the manuscript that was full of writing, and felt a little proud.
You don’t need to worry about plotting the plot, and you can finish this story today. So which newspaper should you send this novel to? There are quite a lot of newspapers in Xiangjiang, and there are 20 to 30 cities with 5 million people, and there are roughly no less than 60. The more influential ones include Sing Tao Daily, Chengbao, Mingbao, Oriental Daily, etc. These are all major newspapers that still exist until later generations. I don’t know if they have novel serializations, but Mingbao and Oriental Daily have them anyway.
Oriental Daily was first excluded. Although it will be the largest newspaper in Xiangjiang in the future, the investors seem to be Taiwanese. They were very unfriendly to the mainland in the early days of their establishment. If they voted for his words, they would be troublesome after they were involved in some political bullshits.
This may not be a worry. For a long time, all walks of life in Xiangjiang have liked to divide camps and express their positions, while people in different camps are hostile to each other. Newspapers with too strong political atmosphere should stay away from each other, let alone hostile to the mainland.
Chapter completed!