Superstars start from variety shows

Chapter 176
"It feels like my body is being hollowed out!"

It was Monday again, Qiao Yi came to the company with a tired face, and went directly to Gu Ruobai's office.

Gu Ruobai raised his head and gave Qiao Yi a white look, then lowered his head to look at the script in his hand.

This script was not the one given by Qiao Yi, but a script obtained by Rao Xiaozhi.

Speaking of which, Rao Xiaozhi has been with the company for almost two years. In addition to being Qiao Yi's assistant director, he has not yet become a full director, so he was probably anxious, so he found a script by himself to test the company's attitude.

Gu Ruobai was naturally happy to see someone stand out, anyway, she knew that even if she got ahead, it would be impossible to surpass Qiao Yi.

After all, how can a pure director have more iconic appeal than a director with actors, screenwriters, singers, and idols?
Rao Xiaozhi handed in the script, what story does it tell?

To put it simply in one sentence, it is a story about a man who lost his legs since he was a child and lives with an old yellow dog. The story is very simple, it is the kind of story where people are affectionate and dogs are righteous.

And importantly, the investment will not be too high, making it suitable for novice directors like Rao Xiaozhi to try their hand at it.

Qiao Yi saw that Gu Ruobai ignored her and was still scratching in the notebook with a pen, so he walked over and asked, "What are you doing?"

"Rao Xiaozhi handed over a script. I think it's pretty good, but it's a bit too bland, and it's difficult for the current market to accept this kind of literary film that builds up to the end and waits for a climax, so I'll give you some opinions first." Gu Ruobai stretched his waist.

This time, they went out for two days to play, and the relationship between the two was also warming up visible to the naked eye.

When Gu Ruobai was alone in front of Qiao Yi, when there were only two of them, he no longer had the cold look of the past, but instead had a bit more of a daughter's attitude.

Qiao Yi glanced at Gu Ruobai, a little surprised: "You can change the script yourself now? Why, do you think being a producer is too easy?"

"Hey, how about you change it!" Upon hearing this, Gu Ruobai directly pushed the script to Qiao Yi.

Qiao Yi reluctantly picked up the script, seeing that Gu Ruobai had already got up, she sat in her seat, put the script on the table, opened it and read it.

It's really simple, one person, one dog, as plain as water, it's more like a documentary than a movie.

Because the script is under the name, a special sentence was added, adapted from real people and real events.

Moreover, some subplots were added to the movie, and there was a forced sensationalism at the end, which was very embarrassing to watch.

However, it reminded Qiao Yi of a tear-jerking movie, "The Faithful Dog Hachiko".

It turns out that the American version of the film was adapted from the Japanese version. It is about Parker, a university music professor who meets a poor little Akita dog at a small town station on his way home from work. His wife strongly opposed it and tried every means to send it away, but seeing how her husband and daughter loved it sincerely, she finally decided to make it a member of the family. Parker named it "Hachiko".

Hachiko grew up with Parker's family, from a puppy to a behemoth.Hachiko accompanied Parker to work on time every day, and appeared at the gate of the station at five o'clock in the evening to welcome Parker off work. This was their date time.

However, on the day Hachiko learned to pick up the ball, Parker was happy and proud, but it was also the last precious memory of the two of them.

On that day, Parker suddenly collapsed during class at the university. He died of a sudden myocardial infarction and never returned to the station.

After that, every evening at five o'clock, Hachiko came to the train station to wait and stare.On the second day and the third day, from summer to autumn, Hachiko remained unchanged for nine years until he finally died...

It is also a plain story, but it captures the ultimate warmth.

Anyway, every time Qiao Yi watched the scene where Hachiko learned how to pick up the ball, he didn't dare to watch the subsequent episodes, and would always cry.

"What do you think?" Gu Ruobai asked after seeing that Qiao Yi had already lowered his head in thought after finishing the reading.

"Not very good." Qiao Yi said truthfully.

"Can it be changed?"

"If you change it, you need to add a lot of things. Then, finally remove the useless plot. Since it is a story about one person and one dog, then honestly tell the story of one person and one dog. As for the plot of other people, it can only be regarded as It is the enrichment and detail filling of the script."

Gu Ruobai nodded, she and Qiao Yi had the same point of view.

"However, when I saw this script, I remembered another story. I can't remember when I heard it. Is it real?" Qiao Yi said with a smile.

Gu Ruobai was really interested, and hurriedly asked, "What story?"

Qiao Yi then told Gu Ruobai the story of "The Hachiko the Faithful Dog".

Unexpectedly, after just telling her a simple story, the woman burst into tears, which made Qiao Yi say that women are very emotional.

If it were him, if he only listened to the story, he would not be able to reach this level at all.

He hurriedly diverted her attention with a sentence: "What do you think of this story? If possible, you can tell the story to Rao Xiaozhi, and then he will find the screenwriting teacher to save the script."

"You write it out, and I'll send it to him." Gu Ruobai ordered directly.

Qiao Yi had no choice but to write the outline of the entire story in very short words.Then he watched Gu Ruobai print it out directly and asked his assistant to hand the document to Rao Xiaozhi.

"It's almost noon, let's go to eat?" Qiao Yi glanced at the time, and it was almost twelve o'clock.

"I don't want to eat. I've been a little full for the past two days." Gu Ruobai rubbed her stomach, looked up at Qiao Yi with a smile on her face, and glared at him: "It's not because of you!"

"Why are you blaming me again? You insisted on eating it, and I couldn't even persuade you." Qiao Yi yelled that he was wronged.

But in this case, it is obviously unreasonable to reason.

In the end, Qiao Yi had no choice but came up with a good idea: "Why don't we go to vegetarian food?"

"Su Zhai? That's fine."

Gu Ruobai felt that his appetite had grown a little in the first two days, and he already felt a little hungry, which is basically not the case at this time.

So, the two drove to eat vegetarian food.

When the two went out, Rao Xiaozhi looked at the document that Gu Ruobai asked his assistant to bring over, a thin piece of paper, but it already made him excited and helpless.

Excited, because the story on paper is completely better than his.One is just guarding, and the other is waiting. Just from the conception, one can see the superiority.

More importantly, in this story, before the death of the male protagonist, the relationship between humans and dogs is a kind of friend relationship. There is no relationship between who takes care of whom and who helps whom. This kind of relationship is the most rare.

Helpless, because he knew that the outline of the story above was mostly thought up by Qiao Yi.

Thinking that the other party was younger than himself, and his control over the story and the script had reached a shocking level, Rao Xiaozhi could only smile helplessly, and then began to think about how to perfect the script.

(End of this chapter)