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Chapter 97 Drama Master?

Although the script of "The Orphan of Zhao" is not long, it is not short either. It would take several hours to finish writing at Ye Chen's speed.

During this period, Anna had witnessed the entire process of Ye Chen's creation of "The Orphan of Zhao". Xie Quan also came to Ye Chen's side. Even Xi Jiu, who had always been taciturn, did not know when he came behind Ye Chen!
Everyone's curious eyes fell on Ye Chen, and they also wanted to know whether the genius writer is also a veritable genius in drama creation!
Although "Hamlet" has proved that Ye Chen has extremely high attainments in drama, after all, he has never seen the scene when Ye Chen created "Hamlet" with his own eyes!
Now that Ye Chen wants to create an oriental classical drama in public, everyone is more willing to believe their eyes!

And Zhou Xu, who was ignored by others, also came to Ye Chen's side with the purpose of seeing Ye Chen make a fool of himself in public!

For a moment, all eyes in the conference room were on Ye Chen who was sitting in a chair and writing!

Anna is the closest to Ye Chen, and from Anna's perspective, she can clearly see every word written by Ye Chen.

Soon, the four characters "Orphan of Zhao" came into Anna's eyes.

Anna didn't know much about the ancient history of the empire, so she didn't know what kind of story these four words meant in the history of the empire.

As time went by, an epic story was unfolded in front of Anna through Yechen's hands.

Although Anna is not a daughter of the empire, there are many things in "The Orphan of Zhao" that I can't understand. For example, the treacherous official Tu Anjia killed Zhao Dun's family for personal grievances, and ordered the killing of children all over the country in order to hunt for the orphans of Zhao. This heinous and cruel act was unimaginable to Anna!
In just a split second, Anna had already left a cruel and vicious impression!

In the play, after the orphan of the Zhao family was entrusted to Cheng Ying, a folk doctor, Cheng Ying hid the orphan of the Zhao family in a medicine box, trying to take it out of the palace, but was found by the gatekeeper general Han Jue. Unexpectedly, Han Jue also understood righteousness When Han Jue was hesitant, he ordered Cheng Ying to take the baby out, leaving Cheng Ying and Zhao's orphan as the only blood for the Zhao family, and he drew his sword and killed himself!

What Anna didn't expect was that Tu Anjia ordered the killing of children all over the country. In order to save the orphan of Zhao, Cheng Ying decided to donate his only son to replace the orphan of Zhao, and he would bear the charge of "harboring" and go to the village together. Die, this kind of "Tiger Poison Eater"'s determination to change his life for another made Anna unable to understand, but at the same time, her heart was filled with an inexplicable emotion!

The hatred for the cruel and vicious treacherous officials, the sympathy for the tragic fate of Cheng Ying's children and those innocent children, and the shock of Cheng Ying and Han Jue's understanding of righteousness!

It was the first time for Anna to see such a classic drama in an oriental classical drama, and was deeply moved by the characters and plots in the play!
Anna is like this, let alone Xie Quan, who is one of the three major drama masters of the empire and who has a deep understanding of the culture of the empire!

As early as Ye Chen wrote the title of the play "The Orphan of Zhao", Xie Quan knew what kind of story Ye Chen was going to write!
After knowing that Ye Chen planned to write "The Orphan of Zhao", Xie Quan was also a little worried!
You must know that "The Orphan of the Zhao Family" is an extremely famous story in the Spring and Autumn Period. Although due to the difference between the two worlds, it is not as widely spread in this world as Ye Chen's previous world, but there are not a few people who know this story.

And the more people know this story, the more market there is.

Therefore, many well-known screenwriters have also aimed at this subject, and some of them are even masters.

For example, Xie Quan once thought of this.

Even so, for such a long time, there has been no drama about "The Orphan of Zhao"!
why?
Because it's not easy to make up!
The reason why the story of the Orphan of the Zhao family is not as widely spread in the empire as it was on Earth in the previous life is that there is no such drama as "The Orphan of the Zhao Family" in this world!

As far as the story itself is concerned, there are no such twists and turns in the drama in the history books!But after a certain amount of artistic processing, it was adapted into a drama before it really spread in previous generations and became a well-known legendary story.

It is precisely because "The Orphan of the Zhao Family" is a true historical fact recorded in history books, which requires the screenwriters to respect history and disrespect random fabrications of history. No matter how good your fabrication is, the people of the empire will not buy it !
You know, history has always been the greatest pride for the people of the empire!For the people of the empire, history means the past and a culture that runs in their blood. Without history, there is no sense of cultural identity!

Respecting history means that screenwriters do not have much room for autonomy when creating scripts, which scares most screenwriters away.

If only this is the only thing, a small number of elite screenwriters in the empire can still put "The Orphan of Zhao" on the stage. What really makes these elites have to give up is another reason!
That is, the complexity of the story of "The Orphan of Zhao"!
The complexity mentioned here is not the complexity of the storyline, but that it is not complicated enough to be adapted into a drama!

In the history books, the incident of Zhao's orphans is undoubtedly a classic story in the eyes of future generations!
But a classic story doesn't mean it can be adapted into a classic drama!

There must be something touching in a classic drama.

For a drama master like Xie Quan, if a classic story cannot be adapted into a classic drama, then Xie Quan would rather not adapt it!
As a drama with unparalleled status and tragic meaning in the vast number of classical dramas in the previous life, "The Orphan of Zhao" largely relies on the classic adaptation of the original drama author!

Ji Junxiang, the original author of "The Orphan of Zhao", made some small changes when adapting this story into a drama. Among them, there are two crucial changes. In Ye Chen's opinion, they are also one of the reasons why this drama is so successful. one.

One change is to turn "other people's babies" into Cheng Ying's own son.

In history, it was someone else's child who died on behalf of Zhao Gu, but Cheng Ying in the play used his own flesh and blood to implement the timing of the bag swap.

This change leads to another important change—Tu Anjia accepts Cheng Ying's son as a "foster child", and this child is actually the orphan of the Zhao family!

Sometimes, the birth of a classic often lies in the author's flash of inspiration!
These two changes are like a stroke of genius, which not only increases the conflict in the drama, but also makes the relationship between the three main characters Cheng Ying, Tu Anjia, and Zhao's orphan full of tension, reaching the limit that can be achieved.It is this highly tense relationship that led to the birth of the classic drama with the most tragic meaning in classical drama!
This is also the most shocking place for Xie Quan!

There is no doubt that art needs processing!But this processing is limited!
And in the face of the true story of the Zhao orphans, this kind of processing must be even more cautious!
When Xie Quan adapted The Orphan of Zhao, it was because he felt that the story lacked tension, but he did not dare to make artistic processing rashly, so he had to give up the idea of ​​adapting it into a drama.

But Ye Chen's two small changes are different. The general direction completely respects the historical facts, but the seemingly inadvertent few two strokes instantly raise the tension of the story to a higher level!
Knowing things from a small perspective, this kind of ability to lift weights like a light one would never be able to do it if one didn't have an extremely deep understanding of drama!
This is definitely a master class adaptation!
At the very least, Xie Quan asked himself that he couldn’t do it!

Thinking of this, Xie Quan couldn't help looking at Ye Chen with complicated eyes...

The 17-year-old drama master…

It's too young...

ps: The class is full in the morning, the exam at noon, stay up until 2 o'clock to code a chapter in advance, Chapter [-] is still at night.

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