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Chapter 1633

“The Heartbreakers” is undoubtedly a good story.

Although it may not seem so sci-fi among science fiction works, the story itself is very suitable for movie adaptation.

Of course, it is impossible to copy the original novel completely. After all, there are differences between novels and movies.

For Li Yi, adapting this work into a movie is not difficult, but it still takes a certain amount of time.

The original version is told from the third-person perspective of the male protagonist He Xi, but if it is to be adapted into a movie, in Li Yi's opinion, this is obviously not the best choice.

In fact, "The Heartbreakers" is not sci-fi at all - from the novel to the movie, the sci-fi-related content is just a time and space shift back to the past - this is a setting that has been used countless times, it has long been clichéd and has no creativity at all.

Besides that, it is a science fiction that couldn't be softer. Apart from time-space conversion and grand unified theory, there are almost no words related to science. Even the protagonist's book "Micro-continuum Theory" is probably something the author came up with on the spur of the moment!
But this novel, as well as what the movie presents, gives people something to think about: can greatness that transcends the times really only be a tragedy?
In this selfish world, there are still some things that are so pure and spotless;
"The Heartbroken" tells us three things: one is the love of parents; two is the pursuit of truth; three is the dream buried deep in the heart!

Li Yi began to adapt the movie script of "The Sad One", and at the same time he informed his wife to ask her to return the favor.

Actually, if you say that "The Heartbreakers" is not sci-fi, it does have some sci-fi elements. There is nothing wrong with calling it a sci-fi movie. After all, the definition of science fiction is not that narrow.

Li Yi thinks that the most sci-fi thing about "The Heartbroken" is probably the future background. Since people can travel through time and space, the background must be set one hundred and fifty years later in the novel.

As for the male lead, Li Yi plans to find an old acquaintance, Zhou Guo, to play the role of He Xi, and at the same time find Lin Yunbin to play the "main perspective", that is, to travel back from the future to He Xi's era to witness the experience of this "sad person".

The story is actually not complicated, on the contrary it is very simple.

But how to make a wonderful work is probably the charm of movies.

As long as Li Yi says to start a movie, the efficiency is basically the highest.

Of course, this time, we need to create some special effects. The future world must look like the future world, right?

Li Yi started the project quickly.

Science fiction fans naturally spread the news that Li Yi was going to make another science fiction movie.

"It has to be Director Gou who will reopen the door to science fiction in Chinese films!"

"Well, it's not enough to rely on Li Yi alone. Can't domestic directors give more power?"

"Can you give me a Zhonghai Fortress?"

"The Heartbreakers" is said to be a science fiction movie, but apart from time travel and some special effects shots required for the future world, the rest, to put it bluntly, is just a feature film, a drama.

Built according to the three-act structure, this structure is the most classic and practical;
Li Yi arranged three acts and set fifteen plot points. The first few acts revolved around He Xi accidentally finding He Xi's 150-year-old body, and using this as a theory, he won the Nobel Prize in Physics.
Similarly, the male protagonist Li Yi is also set to have the same name as He Xi.

"He Xi solved the Grand Unified Field, and the problem that has troubled mankind for more than a hundred years has been solved! Time travel can be realized!"

150 years later, He Xi certainly wanted to see the founder of this theory. After the time machine was invented, he traveled back to 150 years ago and saw He Xi as a bystander.
Just as he imagined, an unkempt theoretical scholar, which is of course probably the impression many people have of this type of "sad person".

So, although it is science fiction, the future world only occupies a very small space, and the larger space revolves around He Xilai 150 years ago.

It really doesn't take too much time.

The actors Li Yi invited are all top-notch, so he doesn't need to worry about their acting skills.

The filming of the movie started very quickly and went smoothly. Of course, because he was in a hurry, Li Yi tried his best to shorten some unnecessary time.

Although there is no original movie for reference, Li Yi doesn't actually need to do so now, because this movie doesn't have many parts that require difficult techniques.

When telling a story, just tell it seriously and well. Li Yi was editing while filming, and when the filming was almost finished, the editing work was almost done.

Finally, on the eve of the opening of the Science Fiction Film Festival, "The Heartbreakers" was officially completed.

The Science Fiction Film Festival officially opened. "The Heartbreakers" is the biggest gimmick of this Science Fiction Film Festival and also the opening film. It is a work from the internationally renowned director Li Yi, so it naturally attracted the attention of countless filmmakers and fans from all over the world.

This is not the first movie Li Yi shot without using the original work as reference, but it is the movie that Li Yi is most satisfied with without using the original work as reference.

The movie started playing quickly.

The movie theater was packed
Liu Fei, Du Xianghai and other die-hard fans of Li Yi also appeared here.

Soon, as the big screen lit up and the subtitles of director Li Yi's work appeared, the entire audience applauded in unison.

Now Li Yi's name has become the most hardcore signboard.

The future world that first appears on the screen is full of tall buildings and countless flying cars running in the sky. Suddenly, a flying car comes from the sky, and sitting in the car is He Xi, played by Lin Yunbin!

He Xizhen was wearing glasses and reading a book when the autopilot system suddenly prompted, "There's a call from your wife!"

"Connected!"

Lin Yunbin raised his head, and a light curtain appeared, with a beautiful woman appearing on it.

"My mom and her family are coming over today, so I have to pick them up. You go pick up the kids, don't forget!"

Lin Yunbin replied: "Don't worry, I'm on my way to Yuying Primary School."

"That's good. I won't say any more to you. Let's go!" After the wife said this, the light curtain closed.

Soon, the car arrived at the destination.

It fell from the sky and landed steadily at the gate of Yuying Primary School!
Lin Yunbin got off the car and since the students had not yet left school, he simply walked into the school.

On campus, an old library building was about to be demolished, and many bookshelves were placed on the playground. This caught Lin Yunbin's attention, and he walked to the bookshelf curiously, slowly searching to see if there were any books he could look through. When he walked to the corner of the bookshelf, he suddenly saw a set of books in a sealed bag.

He took a curious look at the title of the book "Micro-Continuous Original", and the title immediately piqued his interest.

I casually opened the sealed bag and turned to the title page. On the edge of the book was an introduction to the author, with information about the author and a photo. The introduction read: "He Xi, male, born in 1975, Han nationality. Graduated from the Department of Mathematics at Sichuan University..."

"He Xi? What a coincidence?" He couldn't help but be a little surprised by having the same name.

I flipped to the publication date of the book, which said the first edition was published in May 2001. I was surprised and said, "This book has been in the library for 5 years, and the sealed bag has never been opened!"

This also made many viewers quite curious. Why was a book kept in the library for more than a hundred years, but even the sealed bag was not opened?
After all, there is no "The Heartbreakers" novel in this world, so everything is new to the audience.

He Xi, played by Lin Yunbin, opened the book and slowly flipped through the pages. His expression quickly became serious, his hands began to tremble, and he muttered, "Grand Unified Theory, impossible! How is this possible? What a joke!"

He continued to flip through the pages, becoming more and more shocked, then ecstatic, until he completely lost control and yelled like a madman: "I found it, it really is the Grand Unified Theory! It really is the Grand Unified Theory!"

Everyone around looked at the crazy Lin Yunbin as if he were a lunatic. His movements naturally alarmed the school security, who quickly ran over and expelled him from the school.

Lin Yunbin, however, held the set of Micro-Continuous Original as if he had found a treasure, and tremblingly dialed the phone: "Wife, you come and pick up the child. I have something very important to do now, and I must rush back to the laboratory!"

Seeing her husband in front of the screen, distracted but ecstatic, she seemed a little confused: "What's wrong with you? Didn't I tell you that I was going to pick up my mom?"

But at this moment, Lin Yunbin, who was anxious, suddenly shouted: "I found the grand unified theory! The answer to the problem that has troubled mankind for more than a hundred years is in my hands. Now I must rush back to the laboratory!"

Before his wife could react, he hung up the phone.

Afterwards, he no longer cared about picking up the child, and just held the book, and the car door opened automatically.

"Back to the lab! As soon as possible!"

"Fasten your seat belts and get ready to go!"

The autopilot system drove the car quickly, and the car took off into the air, speeding away in the sky.

Suddenly he saw the author's name on the book cover again, and quickly gave an order: "Search He Xi, the He in Hebi, the Xi in Xiyang! Mathematician, born in 1975, graduated from the Department of Mathematics of Sichuan University, author of "The Principle of Micro-Continuity"!

After a brief silence, the intelligent system replied: "There is no relevant information. There is no mathematician named He Xi, and there is no "Micro-continuum"!"

Lin Yunbin frowned instinctively: "No?"

"Yes, no relevant information was retrieved!"

The camera switched and a newspaper appeared on the screen, with the words: "Professor He Xi solved the grand unified field, and a problem that has troubled mankind for more than a hundred years has been solved!"

Another newspaper appeared: "He Xi: True time travel is possible!"

The scene switched again, showing a talk show.

During the show, an old professor with white hair said in a very serious expression: "I started to get involved in this field thirty years ago. Seventeen years ago, I clarified the grand unified theory in the physical sense, but I encountered insurmountable obstacles. Not only me, but many people have achieved this step, but can no longer move forward! Until Professor He Xi appeared. He solved this problem that has troubled the scientific community for more than a hundred years! This year's Nobel Prize in Physics must go to him!"

The audience understood the story.

He Xi, played by Lin Yunbin, is a scientist one hundred and fifty years later. Coincidentally, the project he is researching has troubled countless scientists one hundred and fifty years later. However, it turns out that someone had already proposed this theory one hundred and fifty years ago and published a book on it.

The key is, his name is also He Xi!

At the same time, the foreshadowing laid out in the previous part also makes the audience curious. Why was the research that appeared one hundred and fifty years ago not discovered until one hundred and fifty years later, and guided them to verify it?

At the same time, why did such an important book remain dusty in a primary school library for more than a hundred years?
You know, this is a question that has troubled the scientific community. Why is such a profound book placed in an elementary school library?
Obviously, He Xi was also wondering why.
Unfortunately, the database could not retrieve any relevant information, after all, one hundred and fifty years had passed.

So he found someone in the government and tried to find out through them the relevant information about the scientist who had the same name as himself one hundred and fifty years ago.

"Professor He. Based on the information you provided, we have found relevant information about this He Xi. But you also know that ordinary people 150 years ago left very little information!" A middle-aged man who looked like an official handed a file bag to He Xi and said.

Lin Yunbin said politely: "Director Xu, thank you very much!"

"You're welcome!" Director Xu said with a smile.

Coming out of the office building, he opened the file bag, which contained some written materials and two slightly yellowed photos. In one photo, a young and beautiful woman was holding her one-year-old fat son and sitting on a park bench, with a happy and yearning smile on her face. In the other photo, the young woman was already an old lady, holding a comb and concentrating on combing the hair of a middle-aged man with a beard and dementia, her eyes full of love.

This scene once again deepened the audience's doubts and also made them have some speculations and questions.

Obviously, the child in the photo should be He Xi from one hundred and fifty years ago, but why did he become like that?

What on earth happened to make a genius scientist become like that?
Lin Yunbin opened the Micro-Continuous Original again and looked at the middle-aged man in the photo. It was indeed He Xi. He frowned and slowly looked through He Xi's information. He soon saw "schizophrenia in April 2004, sent to a mental hospital, and died in 4". The address of the mental hospital was on the information. He immediately asked the intelligent system to check and found that the mental hospital still existed. He immediately drove to the mental hospital.

"No way? It's been one hundred and fifty years and the mental hospital is still there?" Some viewers couldn't help but nitpick.

Well, actually this is indeed a small flaw. Which mental hospital can stay open for so long?
But this is just a minor flaw that is insignificant. For the sake of the plot, the screenwriter has the final say!
Otherwise there would be no way to shoot!
Of course, many viewers are still puzzled. Why did He Xi end up in a mental hospital? Wasn't he a scientist? How could a scientist who wrote a book like "Microcontinuum" that He Xi, a scientist 150 years later, treasured be so miserable? And died young?
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(End of this chapter)