The Best Director

Then see you at night, Wang Yang and Jessica said goodbye gently, and Jessica walked to the garage, smiling and waving her hands while turning her head: Goodbye, Yang, come on! Wang Yang nodded: You too. (Reading the novel) After that, he walked back to the house and said to Danny who was following him: Man, Jessica is going to learn street dancing, and I have to start working too, so you can play by yourself.

Wang Yang came to the spacious and elegant study room, sat down at the desk, opened the movie and began writing the script of The Ninth District. But after walking for a while, he felt something was wrong and stopped. Looking around, there were bookshelves and potted plants. The morning sunlight came in through the opened French windows, and Danny was running happily on the lawn outside. come and go.

He frowned suddenly, no wonder he didn't feel any depression in his heart, the working environment is so comfortable and sunny now! He thought for a moment, where is the depressive place at home, the bathroom? garage? Under the bed in the bedroom? He laughed. Then he picked up a laptop computer, paper and pen, Kafka Anthology and other books, left the study room, and went to the utility room of the house.

Although the two have only lived together for more than half a year, the not-so-large utility room has been filled with various things in an orderly manner, many of which are gifts from movie fans, such as the most common plush toys, such as Disney's Tang Old Duck, Mickey Mouse, etc., as well as superheroes such as Batman, God knows how fans will think that they are obsessed with plush toys? Anyway, if they are all placed in the bedroom, it will become a baby room. So many things that are not needed can only be placed here.

Wang Yang pulled a table and chair and sat down, looking at the crowded sundries and dolls in the dim light, he said to himself: Well, this is not bad, it would be better if it was more messy. He got up and was about to make a mess in the utility room, and then sat down shaking his head: Forget it, Jessica will go crazy when she sees it. He closed his eyes and felt the martial arts. The Throne of the God Seal Seeking Demons, Audacious World, Nine Heavens, Strongest Abandoned Young Master Zhou Royal General, Killing God at Night Forcibly abandoned the young Zhou royal family who made gods, killed the gods at night, and killed the gods. The throne of the gods, seeking the demons, proud of the world, and the nine heavens. .

Writing a script is not simply copying the big screen, that can’t be done. First of all, a script must be read by multiple people in the crew. The actors must understand it, the art director must understand it, and the special effects artist must understand it... It’s not just him who understands it. It's over.

Secondly, a movie script, its length and content are definitely not just the 90 minutes or 120 minutes on the big screen. In fact, what the story of a movie will look like in the end is determined and born in the later editing room, not the initial text of the script. valued suffers from unfair pay.

And often a script will have many branches and leaves, several endings, and even contradictory content.

Maybe a thick script will only use the 40 pages added up in the final version, but it is as thick as 80 pages or 100 pages.

Because film editing requires sufficient material, the more material there is, the more flexible it will be. Without intuitive video material but just looking at the text, no one knows what the combined effect of this or that will be, whether it is good or bad: And with sufficient material, the editor and director can combine freely and find the best way to tell a story.

However, the more materials, the higher the cost of the film. Therefore, a blockbuster film can burn 200 hours of film and cut it into a 2-hour movie, often with a 3-hour or 4-hour director's cut version; while small-budget independent films can only be shot with strict control He wrote a storyboard script. But his Ninth District did not have any financial constraints.

He has a strong desire to shoot human transformation movies, and he has many, many ideas of his own, but when his thinking and future movie ideas collide, and even part of his brain is firmly occupied by them, what can he do? Everything Sitting without doing it? That's too stupid, that's his brain. He won't deliberately avoid absorbing some successful places in future movies, to tell a story he wants to tell, that's what he did.

In the sound of popping Wang Yang kept typing on the keyboard, and stopped from time to time to write with a pen in the ninth district. The story is like this. In 1980, a huge alien ship suddenly flew to the The earth stayed in the sky above Los Angeles. At first, no one dared to touch it for fear that it would bring unimaginable disasters to Los Angeles and the earth. But after a period of waiting, humans approached the spaceship and forcibly entered the cabin .

As a result, what humans saw was that there were millions of aliens in the spacecraft. They were very ugly and their bodies were very weak at this time. It turned out that they were alien refugees. Humans rescued them all from the spacecraft and temporarily placed them in an area the first area.

This will be the first part of District 9, and the mindset of the audience will be the same as the people of that world that is, from welcoming to hating aliens. At the beginning of the arrival of aliens the entire Los Angeles, the United States, and the human beings all over the world are excited, feel very welcome to them, and finally found friends in the universe! Although they are ugly, people are willing to help them. There are busy volunteers everywhere in the first district. They are enthusiastic and want to make friends with these aliens.

Wang Yang took a pencil and quickly drew on the A4 paper a picture of a human being feeding aliens with a smile on his face. But these aliens are not so friendly, their social organization is like a hive, composed of a few The elite control commands a large number of workers, and the queen of this mining ship is dead. Most of the remaining aliens are workers. They have low IQ, bad temper, and enjoy destroying and killing people. Back to health, immediately messed up Los Angeles, murdered, set fire and robbed...

Naturally, human beings' attitudes have changed sharply, and they don't have the slightest favor for these aliens. Aliens were never allowed to enter parks, subways, etc., and soon became not allowed to leave the first district, and they were officially quarantined. Huge resettlement costs and frequent conflicts have made humans tired of aliens. They demanded that the aliens be driven out of Los Angeles, or even completely wiped out. Of course, this proposal was opposed by human rights activists and other organizations . But in any case, the aliens receive less and less aid funds, and their living environment is getting worse and worse, but their population is increasing. District 9, a high-walled, unmanaged slum.

Over the past 20 years, the government has naturally been doing research on aliens secretly: but due to budgetary problems, the government contracted out the management of aliens to a company called the Multi-National United Organization (MNU), which is also the global One of the best weapons manufacturers. Public complaints are getting higher and higher. In order to save management costs, the government and MNU decided to drive the aliens to the farther and poorer Tenth District.

The actor Viggs is the high-level administrator of MNU's ninth district, and his father-in-law is the president of MNU, so the fat job of notifying the aliens to relocate fell on him.

This has also entered the second part of The Ninth District. The audience will find that human beings are not a good thing. Wang Yang's goal is to dig out the ugly and cruel side of human beings. The attitude of aliens, human beings use aliens, tease aliens put them in zoo cages to make money because the ninth district is too dangerous and there are too many people in the world who want to see aliens with their own eyes .

These can all be expressed through quick pseudo-documentary shots. Thinking of this, he used a pen to scribble on paper, an alien holding a cage, and a circle of humans holding cameras to take pictures.

On the other hand, there is the story of Wiggs entering the Ninth District. This humorous, wife-loving man, and his colleagues are doing bad things that humans take for granted in the Ninth District, cheating, beating, and brutally killing Looking at their fetus, everything is without scruples.

When Viggs was searching a suspicious house, and was sprayed by a bottle of energy liquid that the alien Christopher Fussen and his friends spent 20 years collecting Viggs began to walk on the road of transformation.

The Ninth District has also entered the third part. The audience's position will quietly change, and they will find that the aliens also have good people, and they also have family, friendship... and humanity! Instead, human beings have become inhuman things, they are so greedy, selfish, and ruthless. In order to study alien weapons, human beings can torture and kill aliens and cut them open; for research, they arrested Viggs in the early stage of transformation in the hospital, and decomposed him alive in the laboratory of the MNU headquarters. His father-in-law, indifferent to his plea for help, agreed. Wiggs' beloved wife didn't trust him even betrayed him...but Wiggs was not a good guy when he escaped from MNU headquarters and hid in the Ninth District with nowhere to go by Christopher-Fussen and his son He also knew that he had a chance to turn back into a human being, and that was to grab back the energy liquid and help Christopher Fussen and his son return to the spaceship in the sky, where there was a healing device. So all he thought about was turning back into a human. He doesn't care whether Christo and his son can go home, whether they live or not, let alone the survival of the entire alien race.

Wang Yang thinks this part will be the most depressing. The loneliness and pain after Viggs' transformation, as well as the nausea of ​​human beings, will be depressing enough to drive people crazy! What he wants to do is, the audience has become aliens They feel the same about Viggs and the aliens, and they want to kill all humans!

Then came the fourth part of The Ninth District. In the ninth district, faced with the choice of whether to save Christopher Fussen, Wiggs finally broke out. He was no longer cowardly, no longer With the idea of ​​I am human, he manipulated the alien mecha and the huge army to fight a big battle, killing all those soldiers! The audience will be excited, applauded, and will cheer for Christopher-Fossen and his son to return to the mother ship, and they can finally go home!

But that’s not the purpose.” The purpose of the whole movie is that after the fun, the audience will feel more depressed, and a sense of sadness, because they are human beings. Why is there such a story? What is human nature like? Ugly and ruthless? But the movie will have a good side in the end. Wiggs' wife did not give up on him, and still misses him every day.

In the end, Viggs completely became an alien. He lived alone in the tenth district, missing his wife waiting for the return of Christopher Fussen, who had made a promise, after three years.

Three years later, will it be the doomsday catastrophe of mankind? A battle for Los Angeles? And about human nature? These are left to the audience to think for themselves.

On the snow-white XX paper, with the swipe of the pencil, a scene slowly appeared. Wei XX drove the mecha and fired shells, blasting an armored vehicle that came for reinforcements into the air. Wang Yang looked at this random shot script, stretched his waist, and continued to draw.

The future Ninth District has a lot of scenes worth learning, such as some techniques of pseudo-documentary news interviews, TV reports, monitor records, etc. One purpose of pseudo-documentary is to increase authenticity and the audience's sense of substitution, As early as when he was making Ghost Medicine Records, Wang Yang had already studied the shooting techniques of fake records, but that was a DV movie, while The Ninth District was a film movie, so there were naturally many differences, so He has recently picked up this research again, with objects including The Cloverfield Files and other films.

However, the camera images of the future Ninth District are not perfect. Of course, compared with the cost of 30 million, it is very remarkable. This is an investment-level problem.” The scenes and props in it seem a bit rough and child’s play, such as the respective weapons and equipment of humans and aliens, the size and defense of the MNU headquarters, the number of troops chasing Viggs, and their combat power, etc. Wait.

If a movie is judged from rationality, then it will be full of mistakes and omissions. Wiggs was not locked when he was about to be unlocked, he escaped from the MNU headquarters easily, he and Christopher Fussen easily broke through the MNU...Of course Movies can’t be seen like this,” otherwise there will be no fun and no thinking. But a reality is that as long as there is enough investment, no matter the scene, props, scale, or process will not be a problem.

Fortunately, Wang Yang has no worries about capital costs. He can design the scenes and pictures he wants as he likes, and everything is based on the best movie effect as the standard, so he can create his first sci-fi movie well.

As for how much it will cost? Since he has no production experience in this field, Wang Yang doesn't know how to make a budget, but he asked Robert Zemeckis and Will Smith, who is going to star in Men in Black 2\u003e a few days ago, about the cost. The budget is about 80 million, 100 million. However, this cost includes his salary.

Because the current flame movie is not 100% owned by him. The income of a movie will be apportioned. Although the money is basically exchanged from left to right, the accounts must be clear. Therefore, he charges a certain amount of remuneration below the market price. The director and director of District Nine add up to 15 million, which is already very cheap.

Before he was imprisoned, Paramount had invited him to produce and direct a movie with a remuneration of 25 million. There was no clear script, which could be written by himself or they could choose what they had on hand: Paramount The total investment will not exceed 70 million. However, Flame Movie is allowed to enter the game with a maximum of 30 million. Undoubtedly, this is an opportunity with very rich rewards and very low risks. But Wang Yang, Tested... After a while, he still declined .

If the budget of The Ninth District is 80 million, he took 15 million. The initial salary of the lead actor Robert Downey Jr. is 1 million, then there is only 64 million left, and the other members of the crew have to pay the salary and film. The cost of equipment... how much money is there for filming and special effects?

Moreover, one of the main scenes of the movie is Los Angeles. He plans to shoot all the real scenes, which will inevitably increase a lot of costs; the other most important scene, Ninth..., can be made with miniature models and partial scenery. Shooting: But he doesn't plan to do this, it will greatly weaken the authenticity of the film, in his plan, except for the interior scenes that must be built, the exterior scenes of Ninth... will be filmed on-site in African slums .

Yan... I'm back, where are you... Seeing that there was no one in the study, Jessica searched the room again but couldn't find the figure, so she couldn't help but murmured with some doubts: Not at home... ... At this time, Danny ran forward wagging his tail. She curiously followed Danny to the utility room. Hearing a faint sound inside, she opened the door and saw him raptly writing on the paper. drawing something.

She suddenly smiled in surprise, and as she walked in, she asked: Yang, what are you doing here? This place is more atmospheric than the study room... He excitedly picked up a few pieces of paper on the table, showed them to her, and said, Jessica, what do you think of these alien concept drawings?, although The final shape of the aliens in District 9 needs to be professionally designed by a special effects company, but as the director, of course he has the right to finger... the shape, such as putting forward the original concept. He looked at the rows of shapes on the paper with a smile and was very satisfied. He introduced to her, There are beetle people, lobster people, bee people... sweetheart, which one do you like...

Hmm... Jessica looked seriously at the aliens on the paper. They all had tentacles and two hands... She looked at them for a long time, then suddenly tilted her head and asked, Which one is a lobster and which one is a lobster? The beetle... Wang Yang was stunned for a moment, and Jessica quickly smiled and said, No, no. I recognized it, this is the beetle man! I love beetles...

Seeing her pointing at the bee man, Wang Yang shrugged and said, Yes, that's him. But I really need to find an art teacher...