screenwriter mystery

Chapter 1 Screenwriting Classics
Run away, run away, run away!
In the dimly lit movie theater, exclamations kept ringing out one after another.

The audience's emotions were mobilized to the peak in the plot reversal of the big screen horror. One second the heroine was on the verge of death, but the next second she turned around and survived.

Watching the blood-soaked heroine climb onto the passing pickup truck amidst the screams, she laughs like crazy while urging and yelling at the driver with an almost crazy expression.

And behind him, the obese murderer held the chainsaw in his hand high, limping and waving the harsh sound of the chainsaw under the reflection of the rising sun.

It is through the amplification of the huge sound in the theater that it constantly stimulates the fear in the hearts of the moviegoers.

Even if it was only across the big screen, they were afraid that this chainsaw killer wearing a human skin mask would suddenly rush out of the movie screen and start killing them.

In the final movie screen, against the background of the rising sun, the murderer wields a chainsaw as the final closing shot, which indicates that all the stories have not ended because of this.

The movie is over.

A scrolling subtitle sheet begins to appear.

However, the audience in the theater was still immersed in the final scene of the movie, unable to recover for a long time.

After a while, accompanied by a rough curse, the originally peaceful theater seemed to come alive, and various discussion noises began to sound.

"Fuck, this is the scariest movie I've ever seen, damn it, damn it..."

"The family of murderers is completely lunatic. They actually take pleasure in killing people. When I saw the two grandsons let the grandfather kill the heroine, I was shocked. The screenwriter who made up this kind of plot is definitely a lunatic. , However, that shot was so cool, I feel a little shuddering now when I think about it.”

"Have you heard? It is said that the scene of this movie is based on a real case."

"No, then I will never go to Texas in my life."

"I've decided to call my friends and watch the movie again."

"Hey, I thought so too."

……

"Congratulations, Alan."

In a corner of the movie theater, the reaction of the audience watching the movie can be seen in the eyes.

A dark-haired Asian man turned his head to congratulate a young man of the same skin color.

The Asian man is named Wen Ziren, and he is a well-known horror film director in Hollywood in recent years. Two years ago, he made a huge profit in the film market at a cost of 120 million with a small-budget horror movie called "Chain Saw". With a box office of 5000 million US dollars, it successfully gained fame and entered the eyes of major film companies.

However, with the success of the movie "Chain Saw", Wen Ziren's career as a director has also been affected to some extent.

The film producer wanted him to concentrate on the development of the chainsaw series. After two years, Wen Ziren directed and participated in the two sequels of "Saw 2" and "Saw 3".

Only then did I finally have the energy to shoot my own movie.

As an Asian who has worked in Hollywood for many years, Wen Ziren is very clear about what he is good at.

Because, for the idea of ​​the new movie, he undoubtedly chose it as the horror genre that he is best at.

In order to be able to produce a movie that he was satisfied with, he personally wrote the screenplay and participated in the production of the new movie, but the stories he wrote were somewhat unsatisfactory. It seemed that the continuous filming of the chainsaw series had exhausted his inspiration.

And just when Wen Ziren was at a loss, a horror movie script about a murderer caught his eyes.

And the young and handsome man in front of him with a pair of bright eyes and the same Chinese background as himself is the screenwriter of this new work.

"I'm just a little bit luckier."

Facing Wen Ziren's congratulations, Ai Lun, or Zhao Yuan smiled modestly.

He did have some luck. Although he has full confidence in classic horror-themed movies like "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre", he also knows that in the context of Hollywood, the quality of the script is important, but it is often not the best. Which link is the key.

After all, there are so many screenwriters in Hollywood, and countless movie scripts are produced every day.

Who can guarantee that his work is so lucky to be selected, and at the same time be shot into an excellent film work.

Good scripts meet bad production directors, not only in the East, but also in Hollywood.

Fortunately for Zhao Yuan, not only was his script selected, but the director who shot the movie was also very good at horror themes.

Therefore, the classic horror movie from Zhao Yuan's original world can be fully presented.

Although, the quality of the movie content doesn't matter much when he, the screenwriter, gets the follow-up remuneration, but for this first script that he has painstakingly 'created' (transported) since time travel, Zhao The original is more or less concerned.

After all, whether a movie is good or bad is not critical to the screenwriter, but a good beginning can always make him, an unknown little screenwriter, famous in Hollywood, at least in terms of remuneration for future scripts. No matter how bad it is, once the film's follow-up box office is good, he, the screenwriter, can get some extra compensation to some extent.

The reason why he is so snobbish is not that Zhao Yuan is a philistine.

But America, a capitalist country, is real capital, and Hollywood, as the most representative existence in it, is all about capitalism.

A screenwriter like him who has no money and no power wants to survive in this kind of big capital society, and even become a member of the upper-class capital, so naturally he needs to spend more time.

"Allen, Hollywood doesn't think highly of you because of your modesty."

As someone who has experienced it, Wen Ziren saw Zhao Yuan's modest reaction, and then he opened his mouth to remind him.

Wen Ziren's appreciation for Zhao Yuan is not only because of the same skin color, but also because of his talent in scripts.

As a director who is also good at screenwriting, Wen Ziren is more aware of the special features of the "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" movie than ordinary people. The arrangements of various plots, especially the setting of the chainsaw massacre, have vaguely detached In the current routine of Hollywood movies.

Wen Ziren has a hunch that once the "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" is successful.

The next horror movies will compete to imitate the elements and plots in their movies.

After all, there are murderers in pickup trucks, hidden murders in gas stations, etc., although symbols such as the human skin mask of a leather-faced murderer, a chainsaw that makes harsh sounds, and screaming chases in the middle of the night have also appeared, but No one has ever brought it all together in one film.

It can be said that "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" is a movie that integrates various classic elements of the current Hollywood horror movie.

And how can a movie that combines so many classic elements not become a classic.

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