The Road to Rebirth of the Movie King

The middle-aged man stared at him with a smile for a while, and then nodded to express his agreement with his speculation about his identity.

Yang Nianhong, who was behind him, raised his hand and knocked Ye Changshi on the head, and said in a stern tone, "What is it called Laoyangan, Mr. Song?" What is it called Mr. Song, I like Laoyanji. "The middle-aged man retorted gently.

"Yes, Mr. Song." Although the other party said so, Shi Ye Changshi still greeted obediently, sat on the sofa with Yang Nianhong, and put the script aside.

At this moment, he has almost realized what the situation is. The middle-aged man who is drinking tea in front of him is the original author of "Dark Rong Empire". For "Grandpa".Song Xu is a well-known writer who often travels and whereabouts are uncertain. Ye Changshi wanted to meet him after accepting the movie last year, but he couldn't find the real person, so he had to ask Director Yang to contact him. It's been a month, and he has almost forgotten it. He didn't expect this writer to suddenly appear in such a troubled place in the film and television city.

Song Xu seemed to see his doubts, and said with a smile: "I happened to be looking for inspiration nearby, and Director Yang said that there was an actor who wanted to chat with me, so I came here."

Ye Changshi looked at Yang Nianhong, who was sitting on the other sofa with a newspaper and looked intently reading the news, but Ye Changshi knew that he must be secretly listening to the conversation between them, so he showed a shy expression Smiling, he said to Song Xu: "It's fortunate that Director Yang contacted me this time. I do have a lot of novels that I would like to talk to Teacher Song about."

Next to him, Yang Nianhong took a sip of tea, turned over the newspaper again, put on his glasses and continued to read.

Song Xu nodded and said, "Although I haven't paid much attention to the movie news, but seeing you, I almost guessed that you are playing Rong Chen, and what you want to ask is probably about this character!"

Ye Changshi responded, frowned and said, "This is a complicated character. I really can't understand his thoughts in some places, such as why he used witchcraft to move the entire Dark Night Kingdom underground 200 years ago? It would be more efficient to find the heroine and send more people there, why did he abandon the country and go to other countries thousands of miles away? And the last person who lost his memory is..."

Song Xu took a sip of tea while listening to his words. Instead of answering these questions, he chatted about other things: "Guess how I wrote this novel?"

Hearing the topic he suddenly brought up, Ye Changshi was stunned for a moment, and then he also thought about his question. The structure of the world view of an excellent novel must pay a lot of effort, the setting of each character, the formation of the story , the fullness of the plot, the foreshadowing laid down step by step in the early stage, and the truth revealed one by one in the later stage, this is a very huge and mentally consuming job. Waiting will often affect the content of the novel, but as an actor, how can he think of so much at this moment?

Ye Changshi could only shake his head.

"There's no need to think too complicated." Song Xu seemed to have expected his answer, and instead of asking any more, he said slowly: "The idea of ​​this novel is actually just a dream I had one day. .”

Ye Changshi raised his eyebrows: "Dream?"

"Well, during that time I was hiking in the Baji Desert with a tour group, so the background of my dream was also a boundless desert.

In the dream, I saw a woman riding a horse coming towards me from a distance, but she seemed to be standing still and couldn't get close. I couldn't see her face clearly, but I knew she was very beautiful. Unfortunately, I was far away from her until I woke up. "Song Xu's eyes showed a bit of pity, "I feel very lost after waking up from the dream, because I will never see her because she is the person in the dream, and then I came up with an idea, since I can't see her , then let her appear in my book, so I will build a new world for her, add bricks and tiles to this world, set up a kingdom, frame her life and stories, give her lovers and friends, and gradually form The outline of "Night Empire" that you see now, the formation of this book is so simple. "

Ye Changshi was speechless for a moment, thinking that if this old smoker didn't like women and dreamed of a beautiful boy, wouldn't the character design of this novel be reversed?

Song Xu didn't know what he was thinking, but continued: "Rong Chen is the same, his creation has a prototype, but I never told about it."

Ye Changshi was curious about this, and asked, "Is the prototype accurate?"

Song Xu: "Also in that tour group, I met the son of a high-ranking official. He always maintains a carefree appearance during the day and likes to flirt with the pretty girls in the tour group, but at night he looks special. Lonely, few words, I shared a tent with him and found out his abnormality, so one day I asked him why you have been unhappy, but he didn’t say anything to me at that time.”

"and then?"

"Then the night before we were about to leave the desert, we sat around the campfire, and he looked up at the starry night sky and said to me, "I have a girl I really like, but she's been dead for a long time, and I haven't seen her." She will never see her for the last time, how can she be happy. "

Ye Changshi was silent. Following Song Xu's words, the scene of the man saying these words seemed to appear in his mind, and the figure of that man coincided with the figure of Rong Chen he had simulated.

Song Xu smiled: "I said so much just to tell you, don't think things too complicated, look at Rong Chen as an existing person, not a mysterious character in the book, his prototype is ordinary Man, any man, when you live in that environment, it's easy to be him."

Ye Changshi suddenly felt that some thoughts in his heart were suddenly caught, and suddenly became clear. The man in his mind who was confiding his thoughts around the campfire gradually became blurred, slowly turning into his own appearance.

He somewhat understood what Song Xu meant. For any person, when you live in that environment, it is very easy to become Rong Chen. You don't need to think too complicatedly about the emotions and struggles behind each of his choices, because as the Night King , Rong Chen originally had no choice.

"I see." Ye Changshi said.

Song Xu laughed happily, took a few sips from the teacup, and seemed to be feeling a little bit emotional, "Sometimes the author doesn't think too much in his mind, he writes the plot as he wants, it's more based on intuition , To be honest, as a writer of novels like me, I will not be of much help to you in making movies, and you still have to figure out the script and plot by yourself."

Ye Changshi shook his head: "Anyway, I would like to thank you for being able to chat with this junior for such a long time. After listening to your words about the formation of the novel, my thinking has become much clearer. I think I have grasped Rong Chen's feeling. I believe It will be much easier to grasp the characters in the subsequent shooting.”

Ye Changshi’s thanks are sincere. For a film adapted from a novel, to understand and interpret the characters in it, no matter whether you think about it yourself or read the opinions of other readers, there is no better information than chatting with the author himself. More, in the next few months of filming, whenever he felt stuck in a certain place and could not enter the role, he would recall Song Xu's words again, and outline a lonely person in the desert in his mind. The image of a traveler, who disguises his sadness with happiness, can only reveal some inner remorse and melancholy to strangers at a certain time, that is the prototype of the male protagonist.