Chapter 126: "District 9"

"Then I will see Wang Yang and Jessica lightly at a farewell at night, and Jessica will walk to the garage, and smile and wave her hand back:" Bye, Yang, come on! Wang Yang nodded: "You too." (Read novel) "Finally, he went back to the house" and said to Danny who was walking at his feet: "Man, Jessica is going to learn hip-hop. I have to start working too, so you play it yourself. "
Wang Yang came to the spacious and elegant study, sat down at the desk, opened the movie and began to write the script of "The Ninth District". But after a while, he felt some awkward stop. "Looking around left and right, there are bookshelves and potted plants, the morning sunlight was withdrawn from the opened floor-to-ceiling windows, and Danny was running happily on the lawn outside. Running around.
He frowned immediately, no wonder he felt no depression in his heart, and now the working environment is too comfortable and the sun is shining! He thought about where the "suppression" can be at home, the bathroom? garage? Under the bed in the bedroom? He laughed aloud, and picked up a laptop, pens and papers, "Kafka Collection" and other books and left the study to the house's utility room.
Although the two have lived together for only more than half a year, the not-so-large utility room has been orderly filled with various things, many of them are gifts from fans, such as the most common plush toys, such as Disney ’s Tang Old ducks, Mickey Mouse, etc., there are also super heroes such as Batman, God knows how fans will think they are obsessed with plush toys? Anyway, if they are all placed in the bedroom, it will become a baby room ", so many can not be used here.
Wang Yang took a table and chair and sat down, looking at the crowded debris and dolls around in the dim light. He said to himself: "Well, this is not bad." It would be better if it was more chaotic. " When he got up, he would make a mess in the utility room, and then he shook his head and sat down: "Forget it, Jessica would be crazy when he saw it." He closed his eyes and felt the martial arts. The Throne of the Immortal God of Thrones Nine Heavens Strongest Abandoning the Young Da Zhou Clan Heavenly Night The Most Throne of the Immortal Thrones of God Great Abandoning the Youth Great Clan Sky Will Kill the Night Strongly abandon the Shaozhou Zhou royal family to create the gods, kill the of the night, the Indian throne, and seek the magic. Ao Shijiutian is the strongest to abandon the loneliness and depression of the Shaozhou Zhou royal family for a while. Then he looked at the laptop screen and began to beat on the keyboard. .
Writing a script is not a simple copy of the big screen. It ca n’t be done that way. First of all, a script should be shown to the crew in many ways. The actor must understand, the art director must understand, and the special effects artist must understand ... It ’s not just him who understands Finished.
Secondly, a movie script, its length and content are definitely not the only 90-minute and 120-minute things on the big screen. In fact, what a movie's story will look like in the end is that it was decided and born in the editing room in the later period, rather than the text of the initial script "So the good scripts and bad scripts of the film company are piled up like mountains". "Regarded by people" suffered unfair salary treatment.
And often a script will have a lot of leaves, several endings, and even contradictory content. Perhaps Yi Mou's thick script will only use the 40 pages added up, but it is 80 pages and 100 pages thick.
Because the editing work of a movie requires sufficient materials, the more the material is, the more flexible it is. There is no intuitive image material and only the text. "No one knows what the combined effect of this and that will be, whether it is good or bad: With enough material, the editor and director can let go and combine to find the best way to tell a story.
But the more material, the higher the cost of the film. So a large film can burn 200 hours of film and cut into a 2 hour film, often with 3 hours and 4 hours of director's edited version: while small-cost independent films can only be saved with film "strictly controlled" It is a sub-screen script, but his "Ninth District" does not have any funding restrictions.
He has a strong desire to shoot human metamorphic movies, and many, many of his own ideas, but when thinking and future movie ideas crash "or even a part of his brain is firmly occupied by them, what can he do? Sitting without doing it? That's too stupid, that's his mind. He won't deliberately avoid "absorbing some of the success of future movies and telling a story he wants to tell, that's what he did.
In the voice of "Papa Papa", Wang Yang kept striking the keyboard and stopped from time to time with a pen in a ninth district. The brief is this. In 1980, a huge alien ship suddenly flew to The earth stayed above Los Angeles. At first, no one dared to touch it. "I was afraid that it would bring unimaginable disaster to Los Angeles and the earth." But after waiting for a period of time, humans still approached the spacecraft and forced into the cabin. .
As a result, what humans see is that there are millions of aliens in the spaceship. They are very ugly, and their bodies are very weak at this time. It turns out that they are alien refugees. Mankind rescued them from the spacecraft and temporarily placed them in an area called "the first zone".
This will be the first part of "The Ninth District", the audience's mentality will be the same as the people in that world "that is," from welcome to hate aliens. "At the beginning of the arrival of aliens" the whole of Los Angeles, the United States, and the world's humans are all excited, and they are very welcome to them, and finally found a friend in the universe! Although they look ugly, people are happy to help them. Busy volunteers can be seen everywhere in the first district. They are enthusiastic and want to make friends with these aliens.
Wang Yang quickly painted on a4 paper with a pencil, "A human smiles and feeds aliens to eat. But these aliens are not so friendly, their social organization is like a honeycomb, by a few Of the elite control commanded huge workers, and the queen of this mining ship was dead. "The vast majority of the remaining aliens are workers." They have low IQ, temperament, and are happy to destroy and kill. So when they are He recovered his health and immediately messed up Los Angeles, killing and setting fire ...
The natural attitude of mankind has changed sharply, and he has no slight feelings for these aliens. Aliens were never allowed to enter parks, subways and other restrictions, and soon became the first zone, they were formally forced to be isolated. The huge resettlement costs and frequent conflicts "all make humans annoy the aliens". They demanded that the aliens be expelled from Los Angeles and even wiped out completely. Of course, this proposal was opposed by human rights organizations and other organizations. . However, in any case, "the aliens are getting less and less aid, and their living environment is getting worse, but their population is getting more and more." District IX, a high-wall captive, unmanaged slum.
In the past 20 years, the government ’s research on aliens has naturally been done in secret: However, due to budget problems, the government contracted the management of aliens to a company called
Multinational Organization (MNU)
, which is also a global One of the best weapons producers. People ’s complaints are getting higher and higher, also to save management costs. The government and MNU decided to rush aliens to the more remote and poor tenth district.
The actor Wiggs is the top manager of the 9th district of MNU, and his father-in-law is the president of MNU, so the "fat difference" that informed the aliens to move fell on him.
This also entered the second part of "The Ninth District", the audience will find that "human beings are not good things." Wang Yang's goal is to dig out the ugly and cold side of human beings, on the one hand, the whole society treats The attitude of the aliens, humans use aliens to tease aliens "to put them in a cage in the zoo and 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 be expressed through a quick pseudo documentary lens. Thinking of this, he painted on the paper with a pen. An alien grabbed the cage and surrounded by a circle of humans holding a camera to take pictures.
On the other hand, it ’s the story of Wiggs ’s entry into the ninth district.
This witty, wife-loving man and colleagues are doing bad things that human beings take for granted in the ninth district, cheating, beating, and cruelly killing. With their fetus, everything is without scruple.
When Vickers was searching a suspicious house, and then was sprayed with a bottle of energy liquid collected by alien Christopher Fussen and his friends for 20 years, "Vickers began to take the path of transformation.
"The ninth district" has also entered the third part. "The position of the audience will change quietly. They will find that" the original aliens also have good people, they also have family, friendship ... and humanity! Mankind has become something without humanity, they are so greedy, selfish and ruthless. "In order to study alien weapons, humans can abuse and kill aliens" to break them up; for research, they grabbed the early deformed Vickers in the hospital, and decomposed him alive in the MNU headquarters research room, His father-in-law was indifferent to his call for help and even agreed. Wiggs's beloved wife didn't trust him "even betrayed him ... but Wiggs was not a good person" when he escaped from the MNU headquarters and had no choice but to hide in the ninth district. He also knew that he had the opportunity to return to humanity, that is, to recover the energy liquid and help Cristo-Fuchen and his son return to the spaceship in the sky, where there is a treatment device. So what he was thinking about was to change back to human In fact, he does not care whether Christopher and his son can go home, regardless of their life and death "and even the survival of the entire alien race.
Wang Yang thinks this part will be the most depressing. The loneliness and pain after the transformation of Vigers, as well as the disgust of humanity, will suppress people crazy! What he has to do is that the audience has all become aliens. They feel the same about the experience of Wiggs and the aliens, and wish to kill all humans!
So then came to the fourth part of "The Ninth District". In the ninth district, facing the choice of saving Cristo-Fosen, Wiggs finally broke out. He no longer has cowardice, no " The idea of ​​"I am a human" has manipulated alien mechas and a huge army to fight and kill all the soldiers! The audience will be excited and applauded for it, and will also cheer for the return of Cristo-Fuchen and his son to the mother ship. They can finally go home!
But it ’s not the purpose.
The purpose of the entire movie is after the joy, the audience will feel more depressed, and a sadness that is straight through the heart, because they are humans. Why is there such a story? What is the nature of humanity? ? Ugly and ruthless? But the movie will finally have a good side. Wiggs' wife did not give up on him, and he still missed him every day.
In the end, Wiggs turned into an alien. He lived lonely in the tenth district, missing his wife. "After waiting for three years, Christophe Fussen, who had made a promise, returned.
After three years, will it be the end of humanity? A battle broke out in Los Angeles? Still have questions about human nature? These are left for the audience to think for themselves.
On the snow-white XX paper, a lens screen slowly appeared as the pencil moved, and Wei XX drove the armor to launch an artillery shell, blasting an armored car coming to the reinforcements. Wang Yang looked at this random split-screen script, stretched a lazy waist, and continued to draw.
The future "The Ninth District" has many lenses worth learning, such as some methods of pseudo-documentary "news interviews, TV reports, monitor recordings, etc. One purpose of pseudo-documentaries is to add authenticity and audience penetration, As early as in the production of "Ghost Medicine Records", Wang Yang had already studied the shooting method of turning over pseudo records, but that was a DV movie, and "The Ninth District" was a film movie. Naturally, there are many differences, so He recently picked up this research again, and his subjects include movies such as "Clover File".
However, the lens of the future "Ninth District" is not perfect. Of course, it is quite remarkable for the cost of 30 million. This is exactly the question of the investment grade. The scenes and props in it are a bit rough and playful, such as the weapons and equipment of humans and aliens, the size and defense of the MNU headquarters, the number of troops hunting Wiggs, and the combat power. Wait.
If we measure a movie from the point of rationality, then it will be full of mistakes. When Vigers was to be unlocked, he was not locked and easily escaped from the MNU headquarters. He and Cristo-Fuchen easily broke through the MNU ... of course The movie cannot be seen like this "otherwise there will be no fun and thinking. But the reality is that as long as there is enough investment, no matter the scene, props, scale, process, these issues will not be a problem.
Fortunately, "Wang Yang has no worries about capital cost. He can design the desired scenes and desired pictures as he likes, everything is based on the best to the film effect, and create his first science fiction movie.
As for how much it will cost? Due to the lack of experience in this area, Wang Yang did not know how to budget, but he had asked Robert I Zemidis a few days ago, and the cost of preparing to star "Wilsmith in Black 2>" The budget is about 80 million one billion, "but this cost includes his compensation.
Because the current Flame film is not 100% owned by him.
The income of a film will be shared. Although the money is basically left-handed for right-handed, the account is to be clear. So he charges a certain amount of remuneration below the market price. The directors of Nine Districts add up to 15 million, which is already very cheap.
Before he went to prison, "Paramount had invited him to make a film with a remuneration of 25 million. There was no clear script, and he could have written it by himself." Or he could pick them on hand: Paramount The total investment will not exceed 70 million. However, Flame Movies is allowed to bring up to 30 million in the game. This is undoubtedly a very rewarding and very low-risk opportunity. However, Wang Yang, "tested ...", but declined. .
If the budget for District Nine is 80 million, and he accounted for 15 million, the initial starring Robert Downey Jr. ’s film compensation is 1 million, then there is only 64 million left, and other members of the crew must pay for the film and film. Cost of equipment ... How much money is there to shoot and do special effects?
And one of the main scenes of the movie is Los Angeles, and he is going to take all the real scenes, which will inevitably increase a lot of costs; another main scene, "Ninth ...", you can take a miniature model, plus a local scene Filming: But he did not plan to do this, which would greatly weaken the authenticity of the film. In his plan, "In addition to the interiors that must be built," "Ninth ..." The external scenes were all shot in slums in Africa .
"Yang" I'm back, where are you ... "Jessica saw that there was no one in the study, and looked around in the room without seeing the figure ~ EbookFREE.me ~ couldn't help but murmur with some doubt Dao: "Not at home ..." At this time, Danny ran to the front with a wagging tail. "She followed Danny curiously and came to the utility room." When she heard a sound, she opened the door and saw it. What he draws on the paper fascinatingly.
She suddenly laughed in surprise. While walking in, she asked, "Yang, what are you doing here?", "Hey ..." Wang Yang, who had returned to God, looked up at her and explained the authenticity: "Nothing, There is more atmosphere here than in the study ... "He took up a few pieces of paper on the table again and showed it to her, saying," Jessica, how are you looking at the concept maps of these aliens? ", Although The final modeling of the aliens in the "Ninth District" requires a special effects company for professional design. However, as a director, he certainly has the right to "finger-paint" ... for example, to propose the initial concept. He smiled at the rows of shapes on the paper and was very satisfied. He introduced to her: "There are beetle, lobster, bee ... sweetheart, which one do you like ..."
"Hmm ..." Jessica looked at the aliens on the paper seriously, with tentacles and two hands ... She looked at it for a long time, and suddenly asked her head tilted: "Which is lobster, which is The beetle ... "Wang Yang was suddenly startled, and Jessica smiled quickly:" No, "I recognized it, this is the beetle! I like beetles ... "
Looking at her pointing at the bee man, Wang Yang shrugged and said, "Yes, it is him. But I really need to find an art teacher ..."