Director’s Legend

Life after becoming the richest man is boring, every day there are invitations to various banquets, charity evenings, celebrity gatherings, or government invitations. To this, Shao Shuaijun's general answer was that he needed to prepare a new script and had no time! Then continue to learn to fly a plane leisurely and leisurely.

It was not until mid-November, when Summit Entertainment held a quarterly summary meeting, that Shao Shuaijun finished teaching, and together with Li Xiuxiu, who came to visit him, boarded a newly delivered small airliner "bl901 Global Express" and flew to Los Angeles.

BL901 is a long-range high-speed commercial transport aircraft developed by Canada. It can carry only a dozen passengers, but it is enough to carry Shao Shuaijun and his party, including assistants and bodyguards, and it is very fast. According to Shao Shuaijun's wishes, the cabin has been changed into a small living room, with a desk, a kitchen, and a special small cinema, where you can watch movies while eating on the plane.

It was difficult for Shao Shuaijun to sleep on the vehicle, and he didn't want to waste time, so he happened to be able to watch a movie.

The plane flew into the blue sky and white clouds. Li Xiuxiu and Zhang Huahua were chatting about skin care products. Shao Shuaijun opened the cinema and started watching a movie.

"Thomas, you can't do this."

In the movie, Jack Gyllenhaal held a gun and pointed it tremblingly at the masked man who was robbing in the alley ahead. He was quite hesitant in his heart. He held the gun and wanted to pull the trigger but didn't dare. In the end, his eyes flashed and the gunshot rang out.

This is an excerpt from "The Night Watchman", Shao Shuaijun's first original film, and the only one that failed. Freeze the movie. Shao Shuaijun picked up a notebook on the table, opened it casually, and turned to a certain page, on which was a detailed summary of the movie's plot just now.

"The scene of Thomas' murder did not show a strong inner conflict, and the crime of the robber did not show the crime concisely. Compared with the two, the conflict is not enough. And the use of the lens is too random, there is no specific rhythm, and the combination of close-up and distant view is chaotic. Fragmentary. It is recommended to add a flashback of the memory shot here, to integrate the close-up into the shot more fully. Don't make it isolated."

Looking at notebook. Looking at the frozen frame again, Shao Shuaijun rested his chin in thought. In private, he didn't know how many times he had thought like this.

"This little girl is so interesting, Miss Xiu. As soon as she saw the little boy's blue eyes, she was fascinated. How old was she at that time. Americans are so early in love, and the little girl said to herself, she I have to save my first kiss for the little boy." On the other side, Li Xiuxiu and Zhang Huahua were talking. Suddenly, it reached Shao Shuaijun's ears.

"Eye?"

Shao Shuaijun seemed to have thought of something, and frowned tightly. Thomas' eyes in the freeze-frame picture seemed to suddenly grow bigger and bigger, and then reflected all the pictures. Shao Shuaijun was startled, inspired, grabbed a pen and added another paragraph in the notebook.

"Don't have a separate memory picture. Before Thomas shoots, add a close-up of Thomas' eyes. You can embed the memory picture on the pupil. Then the embedded picture becomes the reflection of the robber, so that the conflict changes immediately. Subtlety, without deliberately describing the behavior of the robber and Thomas."

Putting down his pen, Shao Shuaijun seemed to have conceived this picture in his mind, which is a very cool way of expression. Especially the eyeballs presented in imax are absolutely extremely cool, and there are many special effects matte means to show emotional changes.

After thinking for a while in satisfaction, Shao Shuaijun continued to watch other movie clips. "Night Watchman" was his heart disease. For more than a year, he couldn't really let go of it, and kept thinking about how to make the movie more perfect. "Night Watchman" is Shao Shuaijun's original idea. His original intention was to portray a superhero who is like a lonely hero.

But being too superstitious about his own way of telling stories, and being too obsessed with this kind of implicit camera presentation, it made the audience confused and became a super bad movie. Christopher Nolan successfully created the most epic dark superhero with "Spider-Man: The Dark Knight".

Shao Shuaijun couldn't bear to look directly at him, his night watchman was a joke compared to Batman, and it made him feel like a lump in his throat, and he couldn't calm down if he couldn't swallow it. Basically, most of his private leisure time is occupied by "Night Watchman". No matter how prosperous other movies he has shot, they can't fill the void in his heart.

After watching the movie like this for a while, Li Xiuxiu suddenly came over with a book in her arms: "Look at this book, it's very good."

"What?" Shao Shuaijun picked up the book, "flipped" was written on the cover. This English word means "flipped, flipped". . But when Shao Shuaijun opened the content, he saw what it was talking about.

He knew that the title of the book translates to "Pounding Heartbeat".

The novel written by the American writer Wendelin van Draanen was later made into a movie by the director of "Walk With Me" Rob Reiner, about two years later. The movie "Pounding Heart" failed to enter the mainstream theaters due to insufficient publicity funds. It was only shown in dozens of theaters in North America, and it was sketchy, but it earned countless praises and praises.

"In the book, the two little girls and the little boy are very cute. The pure love between children is free from any adult's troubles. It is carefree and carefree, with pure likes and dislikes." Li Xiuxiu said excitedly. , and then gave Shao Shuaijun a contemptuous look, "If it is made into a movie, it will definitely look better than your "500 Days with Summer"."

Shao Shuaijun flirted with eyebrows: "Who would watch two children play house these days? In China, this would be puppy love. We invested in "The Girl Who Chased Together in Those Years" by 'Eight Swords'. It may take some trouble to release it in the mainland, to encourage puppy love, it's no wonder that the radio and television stations don't click."

"I said whether it looks good or not, why are you talking about puppy love, hehe, Huahua, you say,

Is "Flipped" better than "500 Days with Summer"? "

"Of course "Flipped" is good." Zhang Huahua did not hesitate to join Li Xiuxiu's camp, she had already seen it. Between Shao Shuaijun and Li Xiuxiu, it was obvious that Li Xiuxiu had a higher status and was more worthy of refuge.

Shao Shuaijun flattened his mouth: "I didn't say it wasn't good-looking. There are two different types of pure love stories. "500 Days with Summer" tells about the adult's view of love, and "Flipped" tells about the shallow love between children. Shallow love, not even love, is just a mutual affection. If you want to talk about pure love, "flipped" must win. But if you want to talk about real love, "500 Days with Summer" is obviously better than One chip."

"It's so logical, have you seen it?"

"Of course I have read it, don't doubt it, I have read a lot!" Shao Shuaijun said proudly. Talk about adding up two lifetimes. He is in his late thirties. I used to be a director in my previous life. The books and movies I have studied are definitely many times more than the average person.

Zhang Huahua asked expectantly: "Boss, you have read it. Why don't you make it into a movie? What a great story. It will definitely attract a large audience. Maybe it will be another "500 Days with Summer" that attracts so much money." Woolen cloth."

"Are you talking about puppy love?"

"What's wrong with puppy love? I think this kind of puppy love is more educational. Julie and Bryce's recognition and love for each other is just to establish a correct outlook on life for children. You can't love someone from the surface. If you like it, if you like his connotation, it would be great, what do you think, Sister Xiu?"

Li Xiuxiu nodded: "Huahua is right."

"Furthermore." Shao Shuaijun waved his hand, left the book behind, and flipped through it casually.

Seeing that Shao Shuaijun didn't move, Li Xiuxiu and Zhang Huahua sat back regretfully, and started talking about skin care products again. After Shao Shuaijun flipped through "Fliped" for a while, he simply put the notebook of "Night Watchman" and the script of "The Hunger Games" on the table, and looked at it again and again.

Soon, Shao Shuaijun put away the "Night Watchman" notebook. He didn't know what he was thinking, and studied "Night Watchman" every day, but "Night Watchman" was already a thing of the past.

Looking at the remaining book and script, Shao Shuaijun became deep in thought. To be honest, "The Hunger Games" is a commercial film, the same commercial film as "The Twilight Saga", Shao Shuaijun can direct or not direct, for him "Twilight Saga" has given up, "The Hunger Games" is also It doesn't matter.

And "Pounding Heartbeat" is indeed a good movie, but it was not in his plan before, and the box office is also unknown.

But Li Xiuxiu liked the book and wanted to make it into a movie.

Do you want to make money first, or please women first?

This is a problem.

Looking left and right, in the end love prevailed, Shao Shuaijun put away the script of "The Hunger Games": "Forget it, postpone "The Hunger Games" and shoot "Pounding Heart" first." After making up his mind, Shao Shuaijun immediately Tell Zhang Huahua to contact Wendelin Van Draanen after getting off the plane and buy the copyright of "Flipped".

An unknown author, a mediocre novel, is easy to buy.

"Oye, the boss is wise." Zhang Huahua laughed loudly.

Li Xiuxiu also laughed, and then asked in a low voice: "Are you really planning to shoot? If you don't want to shoot, forget it. Shooting "The Hunger Games" is not bad. You have been preparing for a long time."

"It doesn't matter to me to shoot anything. Anyway, I bought the copyright. I can shoot whenever I want, right? The story of this "flipped" is very simple, the scene is very simple, except for the little actors who spend a lot of money on acting." Everything else is very simple, and it can be done in a month or two, without wasting my time."

Shao Shuaijun smiled indifferently. It was already the end of November in 2008, and the time was getting closer and closer to 2013. He made money from screenwriting, acquisitions, or directing the movies he could shoot first. The remaining few novels were adapted. Movies, also bought the right to adapt the movie, can be shot at any time.

Therefore, time does not seem to be that important to him.

It only takes a few minutes of thinking to decide what to shoot, but it takes a lot of time to prepare for the shoot. Before buying the copyright, Shao Shuaijun didn't plan to adapt the script. After getting off the plane, I rushed directly to the villa in Santa Monica, rested for a day, and Li Xiuxiu was going to have a meeting tomorrow. As for Shao Shuaijun, you can go to sit in on it, or you don't have to. Anyway, he seldom manages things and the company is on the right track, it doesn't matter if he is there or not.

Zhang Huahua acted quickly. After contacting Wendelin Van Draanen, she bought the copyright of "Pounding Heart" at a not-so-high price. Wen Delin is very happy to be able to cooperate with Shao Shuaijun, but she has one request, that is, she hopes to be the screenwriter of the film, and try to adapt the script to be more authentic.

Shao Shuaijun agreed that Wen Delin is not only a writer, but also a screenwriter, working in a TV station. With her joining the crew, the adaptation of the film will be easier and fit the taste of the original. Wendelin was just giving suggestions at most, the power of how to shoot was in Shao Shuaijun's hands.

Originally, Shao Shuaijun still chose Mitchell Bruce as the casting director and producer, but now that Summit Entertainment is preparing to go public, Mitchell has no spare time to be in charge. Fortunately, Summit Entertainment has a great career, and Louis Leinard, who is the casting director of "Twilight", will serve Shao Shuaijun and help the crew of "Pounding Heart" choose roles.

"Pounding Heart" tells a very innocent and simple story.

Bryce Rawski moved to the town with his parents. Julie Baker, a second grader, was struck by Bryce's blue eyes when he saw his blue eyes. She wanted to get close to Bryce, but Bryce didn't feel for her, on the contrary, he hated her a little.

Because Julie likes to raise chickens, and also likes to sit on the sycamore tree and watch the scenery, which makes Bryce quite confused. How can girls regard these as fun?

The big tree hinders others from building houses, and the tree must be cut down. Julie defends the big tree to the death, and hopes that Bryce will defend it with her. Bryce didn't understand Julie's approach and didn't help her. When the big tree was cut down, Julie was very sad and didn't go to school with Bryce anymore.

Later, Julie won the first place in the science and technology exhibition with the hatching chicken project, which overshadowed Bryce. She later raised the chicks and gave the eggs to Bryce's family. The Bryce family disliked the mess in Julie's house and suspected that the eggs were unhygienic, so Bryce threw the eggs away.

This made Julie even more sad, and began to think that Bryce's blue eyes might be as hollow as himself. She was no longer impulsive for Bryce, she examined herself, and gave up the so-called "love" for the sake of dignity. She sticks to her own life and doesn't feel that being poor is anything to be ashamed of.

In the eighth grade, Bryce gradually felt that Julie was unusual. She liked to sit on the tree because it allowed her to see the farther scenery, and she raised chickens because it allowed her to supplement the family. Her pride in her family makes her attractive. Bryce starts to like Julie.

He told his friend, who laughed at him and Julie's uncle with cerebral palsy, and Bryce reluctantly echoed his friend's words, all of which happened to be heard by Julie. He was very annoyed, but he didn't know what to do. He saw Julie joking with others, and he wanted to kiss her.

Julie ran away and never saw him again.

Bryce regretted it. He decided to plant a sycamore tree in the yard of Julie's house... (To be continued...)