Disaster Artist

books?

This also means, adapting a movie?

With the rapid development of the film industry and its full maturity, original scripts are becoming more and more rare and difficult. After all, after a century of development in the film industry, stories of different types and themes have been told over and over again. The difficulty of winning the prize naturally doubled.

As a result, adaptation and remake have gradually become the mainstream of the market.

Among them, there are many kinds of adaptation objects, ranging from stage plays, TV dramas, comics, games, board games, etc., and even theme park amusement projects have become the source of inspiration for adaptation, covering different fields of artistic creation. Whether it is good or bad is another matter.

In the eyes of a layman, "adaptation" is undoubtedly easier, because the story already has a framework and flesh and blood, and the screenwriter does not need to start from scratch.

However, experts hold different views. Originality and adaptation have their own difficulties. From a technical point of view, adaptation is indeed easier to operate; however, there is a world of difference between "just adaptation" and "excellent adaptation", even if Just wanting to achieve "qualified adaptation" is also very difficult.

Original, the difficulty lies in inspiration; adaptation, the difficulty lies in reorganization.

Adaptation, which means that screenwriters need to face a complete story, but they need to truly understand the whole story, including the frame, context, flesh, soul, etc. of the story, and then bravely break the shackles, in their own way, with the film way of retelling.

Why do movies based on stage plays or games often look particularly rigid?

In the final analysis, it is because the adapted screenwriter failed to break the framework of the original work and copied it mechanically. As a result, it was equivalent to putting the stage play into a movie. Not only did it have no cinematic feel, but it was not as good as the original stage play; or it was based on the game level. To present the story, the result is not as enjoyable as the player playing the game himself.

Likewise, why do film adaptations often seem particularly cumbersome and cumbersome?

The reason is not complicated. A book of 300 pages will eventually be written into a script. There may only be less than 100 pages of content, but it must be integrated into a story with complete succession and transformation. Correct cuts and adaptations, and screenplays can be clunky and unfocused.

Compared with the original, the difficulty of the adaptation is slightly different, but it is definitely not easy.

So far, Lu Qian has only tried original scripts, including three works directed by him, and two series in cooperation with Damen Pictures; but objectively speaking, although it is original, Lu Qian knows that all works are It is derived from a real project in another time and space, so from a certain point of view, it is also an adaptation.

It's just that the pressure and burden are another kind of test when adapting a book for the first time.

"Gone Lover".

The cover is black; the girdle is red.

A long-haired woman was lying on the ground, her messy hair covering her face, her face could not be seen clearly, only the back of her head was left on the cover.

There is only one sentence on the cover, "Be careful, someone who says they love you is trying to control you," by Gilly.

However, more information is left on the girdle:

"I don't love you who are not good enough, who are not serious, and who are not working hard.

I don't want a low-level you, I deserve a more perfect you. So, I'm going to destroy you. "

The above should be quoted from the original text of the book, and the following is a line of marketing slogans added by the publisher.

"From administrative lawyers to Desperate Housewives, one book has gone out of control; if you're a good-natured person, you'll be deeply disappointed by the ending of this book."

On top of that, there's a string of sales champions that attest to the book's bestsellers.

Turn it over, and on the back cover, you can see the recommendations of major media.

"The edge of the pen is as sharp as a blade, and the plot is magical and unpredictable, revealing a cleverness that always catches the eye. Not only has a series of twists and turns and wonderful and meticulous plots been set, but also many vivid and lifelike characters have been created. With the gloomy and cold air, the skill of the technique is astonishing—

If readers have doubts, please go back and read it again. No matter what the book was like the first time you read it, the second time will definitely be different. "

"Excellent read, with a thrilling plot comparable to Higold's, and it's hard to put it down. This book goes straight to the darkest corners of the heart and will give you goosebumps all over your body. You have to put a heart in your throat until the last page."

"A well-crafted and stunning work covering themes of life, love, guilt, loss, etc., and a fascinating and outstanding literary work."

Etc., etc.

Although Lu Qian has not read this book yet, but after a rough look, a classic masterpiece in his own time and space first appeared in his mind:

"Gone Lover" by David-Fincher.

The film is based on the same name and tells a story about marriage.

On the day of the fifth anniversary of a couple's marriage, the husband returned home and suddenly found that his wife had disappeared. The husband searched frantically in various ways. However, the police found in a diary left by the wife that all clues indicated that it was the husband. kill his wife.

From the story itself, there is actually nothing special about it. The story of "husband killing his wife" has appeared so many times on movies and TV screens that detective dramas have such memes, "If the wife dies, the first One suspect is the husband."

However, the real strength of Finch is that he cuts into the marriage with a cold and bone-piercing lens, showing the ugliness and ferociousness of the husband and wife, cruelly unveiling the mask of marriage, and slowly revealing the intangible essence of murder in marriage. Come out, the interweaving of truth and lies really makes every audience re-examine marriage and human nature.

After the film was released, it achieved great success at the box office~www.novelmt.com~ and also won a series of praises during the awards season. Although it was regrettable that it was not favored by the Oscars, the flood of praise still made the film famous and rich, becoming a rare one. See great work that strikes a balance between business and art.

In Lu Qian's original time and space, "The Disappearing Lover" is undoubtedly a work worthy of scrutiny, and it has gained high popularity around the world.

So, what about this book that Dong Ruixi brought? Are two different time-spaces accidentally overlapping and intertwined like this?

"Director, you know, last year, I went through a divorce and had a different view of marriage and life."

Dong Ruixian did not wait quietly, but took the initiative to attack - she needed to attract Lu Qian, or at least make Lu Qian interested in this book.

"At that time, I saw this book by accident. At that time, the book had just been released for less than two months, and it did not attract so much attention for the time being, but I personally like it very, very much, and re-examined life through books, so I immediately I bought the adaptation rights and look forward to being able to put it on the big screen.”

"I don't think anyone is better suited to lead the barrel than you."