[US Entertainment] Hollywood reverses life

After everything was settled, the project that was supposed to start had another problem. The original director, Zack Snyder, committed suicide by his eldest daughter. He told Paramount that he couldn't continue at this juncture. project.

Out of humanitarian considerations, Paramount agreed to his request, so the question is, who will be the director?

But after looking for a lot of directors, they seem to be unwilling, because they think that Joey interferes too much in this movie. If they come to direct, they must follow Joey’s ideas in all aspects. This is a lot of directors, even if they are third-rate. The director can't stand it either.

So after searching for a round, there was no suitable director Ken, but he couldn’t just find a director with no strength to fill in the number. In the end, Joey had no choice but to continue with this project. When he was in danger, he was ordered to go up by himself.

Unexpectedly, after taking so many detours, she finally became the director of "Ghost in the Shell"... She repeatedly begged God not to let her brand be planted on "Ghost in the Shell".

After starting to prepare for the project, Joey also got a version of the script that Paramount asked the screenwriter to write, that is, the version of the script that was released in the previous life movie...

Joy is very sure that it is that version of the script, because they are so bad... In the previous life, Paramount blamed the final box office loss on the widow sister Johansson Scarlett, thinking that it was a wrong decision to "bleach" the heroine. The audience doesn't accept it.

In fact, this is just an excuse. Even if Paramount finds a Japanese woman to play Motoko, the fast-food script of this assembly line will still not be able to save "Ghost in the Shell". Widow sister has obviously acted very well.

Joey thinks that the script is so bad that it needs to be drastically changed.But in the final analysis, the cost budget must be revised first, because the script is actually written according to the cost budget.

Paramount originally planned to invest 1.8 million to make the film, but Joey finally only wanted 4000 million.

The reason why Joey did this is because Japanese comics have a certain fan base in North America and have always been an important source of Hollywood blockbusters. However, the "dystopia" or "postmodern style" represented by "Ghost in the Shell" is not as good as What Naruto Pirates is actually very small in North America, coupled with too much emphasis on artistry, the audience is very narrow.

The investment range of 4000 million is a rational choice. In the previous life, Paramount directly threw 1.8 million, which is simply crazy.

After renegotiating the budget with Paramount, she approached the production's screenwriter, William Ville.

The biggest problem with the failure of "Ghost in the Shell" in the previous life lies in the connotation and the script.In fact, after spending a lot of money on the vision, it is already in place.

She had a brief exchange with the screenwriter, and then she reconfirmed that her guess was correct. The screenwriter didn't think the original work of "Ghost in the Shell" was a masterpiece at all, and he hadn't dabbled in it before. I watched the full version just to write the script.And in his heart, he has always had the attitude of not thinking that Japan, a small marginal oriental country, can produce any decent cyberpunk, so he didn't want to study the connotation of the original animation at all.

He wrote the script completely according to his own ideas and ideas.

Then, he ruined a ten-star masterpiece into a scumbag.

Joey and William sat in the studio and discussed the script carefully. Joey obviously asked with some doubts: "William, how much time did you spend reading the original?"

William simply replied, "About two weeks. I read all the original works."

Joey kept following his eyes, "I've read the original, but your script seems to be different from the original?"

William responded positively to Joey's question, "I know what you're going to say, I did break up the whole story structure and reorganized a new story according to my ideas. Because first of all, I don't think "Ghost in the Shell" "How charming the original story is, and secondly, we want to make movies for non-fans, not to change the story to make it easier for others to understand."

Joey sneered, "You didn't change the story to make it easy to understand, but you basically ruined the temperament of the original. You turned a movie full of philosophical speculation into a standard Hollywood confrontation between good and evil. It's a popcorn movie, interesting?"

William protested: "But if it is written with such profound connotations like the original, will ordinary audiences understand it?"

"Why can't you understand? If you put the plot into philosophical speculation, the audience can't understand? Are you mentally retarded as an audience... You have done too much of a typical popcorn movie, and your thinking has become rigid." Then Joey Give him an example, "The Matrix is ​​philosophical enough, right? Many people say they can't understand it, but it is a complete word-of-mouth masterpiece, and the box office is also a big hit. The script I want to see , that's it."

William frowned and said, "It's a bit difficult to reach the height of "The Matrix"..."

Joey asked incredulously: "How could it be? You have to know that the Wachowski sisters (brothers) directly released the animation theater of "Ghost in the Shell" to the producer in order to attract investment for the "Matrix" movie. Version, "Ghost in the Shell" is the mother of "The Matrix."

Joey's heart bleeds watching him spoil the script of the ten-star masterpiece like this.This is obviously a cyberpunk masterpiece comparable to "The Matrix" and "Blade Runner"!

William took a deep breath, "Okay, then tell me how to change in general and how to change in details?"

Joey looked at him and said word by word: "In general, what I want to see is the philosophical thinking of 'spirit and flesh', 'I and ego' in the original work, not the simplified, those in your script. Damn standard American hero stories like 'Who Am I', 'Self-Salvation', and 'Little Tadpole Finds His Mother', you have to know that the temperament of this movie is ultimately a Japanese movie."

William pushed his glasses, "What you said is too general, and I'm a screenwriter who grew up learning Hollywood scripts, and I don't know how to write Japanese-style scripts."

Joey looked at him, paused for half a minute, and then said, "Okay, then I'll tell you how to change it word by word."

She simply sat down, made herself a cup of black tea, and drank more than half of the cup before continuing this topic with William. The first sentence she started was a sigh, "First of all, you have to know that this is a movie comparable to "Hackers." A philosophical film like Empire."

William smiled, and he quickly waved his hand and said, "Joy, don't be so mysterious, let me tell you, I have been a screenwriter for 30 years, and my experience tells me that there are no real philosophical movies in this world, because movies This kind of audition art is not suitable for telling stories at all, let alone expressing such abstract philosophical thinking.”

Joy corrected him, "My so-called philosophical movies don't really teach the audience philosophy lessons, but let the audience smell a little bit of philosophy, which is already very remarkable."

William understood what Joey meant, "Go ahead with your thoughts."

In Joey's understanding, the original "Ghost in the Shell" is nothing more than two philosophical questions.

1. Does the soul exist only in a flesh and blood body?

2. If the soul can get rid of the body and exist in other ways, then in turn, will our flawed and restrictive body become a bottleneck that hinders the further sublimation of the soul?

Then, the original director Mamoru Oshii gave an answer.

1. The flesh and blood is not the only container for the soul.

2. The upgrade of the carrier brings the sublimation and transcendence of the soul.

This philosophical speculation runs counter to people's traditional understanding. People have always believed that "how wide the heart is, the stage will be as big."

The original "Ghost in the Shell" tells people that "the size of the stage determines the width of the soul."

But in this live-action script, the whole connotation is completely contrary to the original, and William has turned its connotation into a typical American heroism.

The philosophical thinking of the original work is that all beings are equal, and the robot body can also give birth to a soul as advanced as a human being.How awesome is this philosophical thinking.

And then in Paramount's live-action movie,

The female scientist kept saying to the robot Suzi: "Although your body is a machine, you have a human brain and a human heart. This is the essence. You have a soul!"

This is simply a typical Hollywood-style thinking-"human beings first".Human beings are the most advanced kind, and machines are just cold machines.

It completely runs counter to the idea of ​​the equality of all beings in the original work.

Secondly, the original work has anti-American heroism philosophical thinking. It believes that "the size of the stage determines the width of the soul".Then in the live-action movie, the female scientist keeps saying to Suzi that "your actions define who you are".

This is not the kind of thing that has become American heroism again, "the stage is as wide as the heart is", which is another 180-degree divergence from the original "the size of the stage determines the width of the soul".

In short, the connotations of the live-action movie version and the original work are completely different.One is the philosophy of fighting good and evil with complete American heroism and human supremacy, and the other is a spiritual philosophy that denies human inertial thinking born under Japanese cyberpunk.

The former is the individual heroism that is rampant in Hollywood, and the latter is the reverse philosophy of post-modernity and cyberpunk temperament.

Joey really didn't know why this William wanted to change the latter's isolated and excellent temperament into the former's vulgar appearance.

Joy told William exactly what she thought above.

Then she concluded: "I can't tell you how to change the plot, because if you rewrite it according to my above ideas, I think you basically have to rewrite all the plots."

William seemed very distressed, "The temperament of the film you modified in this way is far from the mainstream Hollywood style..."

Joey retorted, "Is "The Matrix" a mainstream style in Hollywood? It is not, it is a typical Japanese-style temperament, but its popularity and box office success are still unattainable for most movies. Facts have proved that if transplanted properly , Japanese anime temperament can even bring extraordinary sublimation to Hollywood movies."

In the end, William compromised and decided to re-shatter and reorganize the script according to Joy's policy.Then its connotation and style basically took a 180-degree turn.

But Joey thinks it's right to do so. In his previous life, he tried to turn the live-action version into a movie of Hollywood American heroism, and then the vulgar, fake American heroism is not suitable for this movie at all. The masterpiece with superb connotation has become a fast-food and fast-selling product on the assembly line.

Paramount lost that [-] million dollars, absolutely not wronged.Dare to change the style and temperament of the masterpiece so blindly, not only offend the fans, but also fail to please passers-by.

This time, Joey hopes to keep the temperament as close as possible to the original work, while adding his own thinking philosophy and visual style.It may be able to present a cyberpunk movie comparable to the height of "The Matrix".

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