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Chapter 42 The Dilemma of Erlang Shen's Origin Movie
In fact, Lin Xin's anger was just teasing. Although he felt that "Man Grows and Hates Water Changdong" is a bit tear-jerking, but in terms of the plot, it is not bad at all.

Although this story is different from what people are used to and familiar with, but after serious calculation, it is found to be reasonable.

In order to perform, he read a lot of literature.

Those materials, where there are online novels that are comfortable to read, are almost all in classical Chinese, and they insist on words.

It is recorded in "Erlang Baojuan", "Heart Sutra of Huimin Da Di Jiejie", "Journey to the West", "Fengshen Yanyi", "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio", as well as various scripts, repertoires and folklore. number.

The iconic third eye on the forehead makes him unique. The source can be traced back to the ancient Shu king Cancong, which is the result of the belief in "Chongmu".

"Although the story happened after Chen Xiang rescued his mother, the content told in this Fuxi water mirror is very complete, and it seems that it should cover Yang Jian's life."

Lin Xin vaguely felt that he had found a treasure!

Among the many gods and demons shaped by myths and legends, Erlang is the most impressive.

Although this character doesn't appear much, his arrogance, ability, and hatred of evil are enough to leave a deep impression on people.

In fact, the image of Erlang God Yang Jian was not achieved overnight in "Journey to the West" or "The Romance of the Gods", but like Monkey King and Zhu Bajie, it was accumulated from generation to generation, and was finally fixed by the masterpiece "Journey to the West" !

The novel "Journey to the West" is the final finalization of the story of Journey to the West. As an important character in it, the image of Erlang God is also finalized at this moment.

Whether it is personal appearance, or social relationships such as family, friends, teachers, and magical powers, they have been described more completely and in detail.

Now people's main impression of Erlang God comes from "Journey to the West", and other works and legends can only be supplemented.

It's just that when making a movie, I definitely won't shoot Erlang Shen's scene in Journey to the West directly. It will be another linkage after the gathering of gods and immortals!

What Lin Xin wants to film is the origin story of Erlang God, and this is precisely the part that is lacking in folklore, historical documents, dramas, and novels, and the screenwriters need to complete it themselves.

Nezha has an advantage in this regard. At least the pregnancy has been described for three years and six months, and the background only needs to be slightly changed.

Just like a superhero movie, it is by no means to shoot the comic story directly as it is, and it needs to be properly modified for the big screen.

"The screenwriters should read Qin Chuan's novel, it should be inspiring!"

Lin Xin looked at the time on the phone, it was only ten o'clock in the evening.

Those editors must have been working late at night, and they definitely haven't slept yet.

So he recommended in the work group: "Editor Xu, if you are still struggling with Yang Jian's story, you can read Longteng.com's "Life Grows and Hates Water Changdong", which deals with Yang Jian's apprenticeship with a teacher when he was a child. It was very complete."

After that, no one paid any attention to him.

Lin Xin could only get up silently and start doing simple fitness exercises in the living room.

Although the literary image of Erlang Shen is a handsome boy with a fair face and no beard, when put on the screen, the character must be masculine enough and must convey a trustworthy message to the audience.

Basically, the muscles will not be exposed, but a tall and straight figure must be present, otherwise it will not look tall enough.

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In the office building of Lieyan Film and Television, the lights in only a few rooms were still on.

Except for the footsteps of security guards patrolling each floor, the entire building was silent.

This is the normal state of film and television workers.

Staying up late, working overtime, and staying up all night have become so commonplace that they have become American time.

"Come on, let's continue to change, the director and producer are still not satisfied."

A middle-aged man pulled his hair, and slammed the printed script on the table.

Another screenwriter took out a cigarette, lit it with a lighter and began to smoke violently.

I can't remember clearly that this is the dozens of editions of the script, and each edition of the script has been greatly adapted.

Now because of the script, the entire production crew can't start, and the lost funds and wasted time are really too much!
"Old Xu, you tell the director what kind of script they want, but the ones you hand in always say it's no good, and you ask them to make requests and opinions, but they can't tell you."

Xu Xiuxian, Jiang Bin, and Zeng Guang are not new screenwriters, they are all veteran screenwriters in the industry.

He has won the Golden Bull Award many times, and has also written similar martial arts and fairy tale scripts.

Otherwise, it would be impossible for Lie Yan Pictures to hire them to be the screenwriters of Erlang Shen's origin movie, because they believed in their abilities.

The script had already been finalized.

However, due to the global box office hit of the Mythology Universe movie "Nezha Haohai", the company's bosses and producers have stricter requirements for the subsequent single-person movies so that they cannot drag down the overall performance.

Under the requirement of excellence, the script naturally becomes a weakness.

Instead of waiting for the shooting to end before conducting a second large-scale reshoot, it is better to finalize the script in advance.

Xu Xiuxian and the others spent countless late nights, their hair was falling out in handfuls, they were under great pressure!
Jiang Bin picked up the phone, glanced at the messages in WeChat, and said: "Old Xu, look at your phone quickly. Xiao Lin recommended an online novel to us and said we can read it."

"I can't wait to read novels!" Xu Xiuxian's temper was a little grumpy.

"He said that this novel is about Yang Jian, and it contains descriptions of Yang Jian's childhood background. Maybe it can be used as a reference for us." Zeng Guang has no idea, "Don't underestimate the online articles, some of them are actually quite good."

It's good to be able to grab a life-saving straw now, where you can choose at will.

After Xu Xiuxian heard these words, he stepped down.

It is very difficult to write Yang Jian's origin story well, but he wants to see how much the author is able to complete what the three of them can't!

"Life always hates water and Changdong? Does the title of this book have anything to do with Yang Jian?"

It depends on the book, should you complain about doubts or complaints.

Three well-known screenwriters in the industry were sitting in the meeting room at this time, each holding their mobile phones, carefully reading the content of the novel.

Almost none of them went to review those.

The main reason is that I don’t have time, and secondly, I feel that my tastes may be different from those of Internet readers.

My honey, that's arsenic.

At the beginning of the novel, the three senior screenwriters couldn't help raising their eyes and looking at each other.

"Such Yang Jian!"

"You will fail and be sad. Human nature is consistent with divinity!"

"This author is really interesting. He has two brushes."

Yang Jian was originally a half-human and half-god, but his life seemed to be smooth sailing, and he encountered no other setbacks except for his family being destroyed when he was young.

The most taboo thing about making a movie is to be flattering, and you have to find some troubles for Yang Jian.

Now Qin Chuan's novel made them put away their contemptuous mentality and treat them as equals. I hope they can learn something from it!
(End of this chapter)