Chapter 181 [If you don't like the revised content but clicked in to read it, your comments will turn red

Although the crew of "The King's Guards" bought the film rights of "The King's Guards", the adaptation of the film copyright script is completely different from the TV series version.

The TV series can be copied according to the plot of the original novel, but the movie version must be simplified again and again, and the story content must be complete, with constant climaxes and ups and downs, and the pace must be fast.

The main tone of the movie "The King's Guards" is different from that of "White Snake". "White Snake" can be made into a funny inspirational movie, but the tone of "The King's Guards" is a drama. However, if the movie wants to be a hit, it cannot just be drama and martial arts. The references are "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and "New Dragon Inn".

Both of these movies were box office hits of the year and are still classics today.

When they saw the article "Jin Yi Wei Commander", they immediately thought of "New Dragon Inn", especially the fighting scenes in "Jin Yi Wei", which is in line with the current market's pursuit and demand for martial arts movies.

The reason why the movie of "The King's Guards" has only started to be planned and the script has only been polished now is because the TV version of "The King's Guards" can refer to the original novel to write the script, but the movie version can only take one of the stories and polish this part to tell a complete story.

This is equivalent to re-creating a completely new story based on the original novel. The original novel only gives them ready-made characters and ideas, and everything else has to be re-created, and it has to be good and amazing.

Because they are aiming to create a series of movies.

When they purchased the film rights to "The Imperial Guards" at the beginning, they referred to "Being a Constable in the Song Dynasty" and knew that the TV station in Province Z that purchased the TV rights to this book made a fortune. Two TV series were made from the copyright of one book.

They have studied several works of Lemon Studios that have been released so far, and know that the story of "The King's Guards" is long, so they can shoot it repeatedly, just like last year's "Young and Dangerous" was a box office hit, and "Young and Dangerous: Way of the Dragon" and "Young and Dangerous: Hand of God" were soon released. They can also hold on to this IP and continue shooting, riding on the popularity of the first "Young and Dangerous".

Similarly, if the first part of "The King's Men" was well made, the second and third parts would not have to worry about the box office. Naturally, there would be old audiences who would go to the cinema and contribute to the box office of the second and third parts.

Therefore, the first script of "The King's Guards" is very important, which requires repeated discussions among the entire screenwriter team of "The King's Guards", as well as the director, producer and others.

This was not something Jiang Ning could interfere with or participate in. Every screenwriter in the screenwriting team was a senior screenwriter in the industry, and every one of them was her teacher and senior. The crew was willing to spend so much money to invite her to be a screenwriting consultant. In addition to the outline, framework and tone she set for the "White Snake" script, the main reason was that they felt that Ning Meng herself was born with fortune, and they wanted to make her a mascot. If she could give some advice that would be good, but if she couldn't, they could just take advantage of her popularity and write in the opening credits of the movie, "Script Consultant: Ning Meng." Are they afraid that Ning Meng's readers won't go to the cinema to support their favorite authors?

Everyone in the film crew knew Ning Meng's true identity. After all, Ning Meng herself had to sign the contract, so her age and appearance were immediately determined. Last year's grand event of congratulating Ning Meng on her admission to Peking University also let them know that Ning Meng was a freshman at Peking University.

So, even though they knew that Ning Meng was a popular author with nearly 10 million sales, they couldn't help but look down on her when they found out that she was just a freshman. This contempt was not because they looked down on her learning ability, but because they felt that her life experience was too shallow and her experience in the film industry was too deep. Writing a script and writing a novel are two completely different things. The dialogues and camera movements in the process are not as easy as writing a novel.

Jiang Ning saw that they had signed a contract with her as a script consultant and the money was transferred to her promptly, so she was no longer needed. She naturally felt relieved and continued with her work and life.

However, the TV drama crew brought the first draft of the TV drama script to Jiang Ning after they finished writing it, wanting to hear her opinion and see if the script was suitable.

This was also clearly written in the original contract.

The person who signed the TV drama copyright with Ning Meng was the producer sister, so the producer sister had met Ning Meng, but the three people from the screenwriter team and the director had never met Ning Meng.

Even though they already knew that Ning Meng was a Peking University student, and the producer sister had also told them that Ning Meng was very beautiful, a young lady from the screenwriter team couldn't help but get excited when she saw Ning Meng. She took out a stack of books and gave them to Jiang Ning with red cheeks, "Ning Meng, Ning Meng, I'm your loyal reader. I've read all your books. I brought them here today. Can you sign them for me?"

The chief screenwriter and director of the screenwriting team simply couldn't bear to watch it.

Of course Jiang Ning agreed. After asking the screenwriter's name, she wrote "TO" and her eyes lit up with excitement.

After she finished signing, the young male screenwriter who had been standing silently beside the young lady also picked up a pile of books, pushed his glasses and said, "Ning Meng, I am also your loyal reader. The books you write are all very good."

If they had not read all of Ning Meng's books, they would not have been able to adapt "The King's Guards". Not only the two of them, but also the producer sister, the director, and the chief screenwriter have read Ning Meng's works, especially the producer and director, who have read every book of Ning Meng. Of course, they not only look at the story, but also the market.

It is obvious that the market response to Lemon Tree's works is extremely good.

While Ning Meng was signing autographs for two screenwriter readers, the director was also looking at Ning Meng.

Although he had seen in the promotion of "White Snake" that the director of "White Snake" had invited Ning Meng, the author of the original novel of "White Snake", to play an important role in "White Snake", he just smiled when he heard it at the time, thinking that Lao Yu said that deliberately for the promotion of the movie.

Who would have thought that after watching Lemon Meng, one would understand that Lao Yu might have really wanted to let the original author play the role of White Snake.

Yes, the director could tell at a glance that the role that Director Yu wanted Ning Meng to audition for was because Ning Meng's temperament and appearance were so consistent with the image of the White Snake in the movie.

Not to mention Director Yu, even he, when he saw Ning Meng in person, couldn't help but want Ning Meng to play an important role, even if it was just a supporting role like her brother.

The looks of this brother and sister are simply too perfect for the big screen. Looking at their fair faces, he could imagine how outstanding they would look when they appeared on the big screen in the cinema.

Especially Ning Meng's aloof and cold temperament, and the sharpness revealed between her eyebrows when she is not smiling.

Isn’t this the real commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard?

Otherwise, it would be difficult for him to find the smart, wise, calm and powerful commander as described in the original novel among his peers!

What's even more amazing is that unlike her brother's soft and feminine face, Ning Meng's face, with her clear jawline, tall and slightly hump nose, cold eyebrows, and the cold temperament occasionally revealed when she is not speaking, makes her look like a handsome man in man's clothing. Coupled with the makeup effect of the makeup artist, if she were to play the role of the commander, she might really be able to convince the audience that the heroine has been dressed as a man for more than ten or twenty years, and no one suspects that she is a woman.

They agreed to meet at a coffee shop outside Kyoto University. The coffee shop had an elegant environment and was perfect for discussing work.

As soon as they sat down, the director couldn't wait to ask Jiang Ning: "Old Yu wanted you to play the leading role in White Snake, right? Why didn't you play it?"

Among the few people, they all knew each other. Only Jiang Ning was a stranger. However, she was not at all nervous in front of so many strangers. She even had an air of being the host. She smiled and said, "Director Yu was just being polite, but Director Zhang took it seriously."

The middle-aged man called Director Zhang immediately said, "Would you like to try out for the role of the commander?" Director Zhang originally wanted Ning Meng to audition first, but for some reason, he immediately slammed the table and said, "If you're willing to come, this role is yours!"

The three screenwriters from the screenwriter team immediately looked up at Director Zhang.

The screenwriter looked at Jiang Ning again and thought, if the commander had a face like this, she could do it! She now felt that she was filled with inspiration, and she now felt that the commander in the book suddenly had a face!

She has already created a hundred episodes in her mind: "Everyone Loves the Commander"!

Who can not love such a conductor!

The producer sister was calmer. She looked at Ning Meng with a smile and said to Director Zhang: "Ning Meng is a freshman at Peking University. She may not be free to act."

You know, she is studying at Beijing University. Instead of attending classes properly, she skips classes to act with your crew? How much money can you give them? This is a popular writer whose sales are about to reach tens of millions, and who has two hit TV series and movies, "The Song Dynasty" and "White Snake". Does he need money?

But Director Zhang felt that Ning Meng could really go for an audition. There was a ready-made candidate who matched the temperament and appearance of the commander-in-chief right in front of him. If he were to choose another leading actor, he was afraid that he would not be able to find her.

Those with such looks are different from those with such temperament. Those with such temperament are afraid that they are too old and do not fit the age of the heroine in the book. Those who are of the right age are afraid that they will not be able to portray the heroine's strength and wisdom.

It just so happens that the author of the original novel possesses all of these qualities.

Director Zhang sincerely invited Jiang Ning. Just then, the girl delivering coffee came. Jiang Ning took a cup of coffee, stirred it with a silver spoon, and smiled and shook her head: "Forget it. I don't have any plans to act in my future plans, so I won't get involved."

Director Zhang now really felt the regret in Director Yu's tone.

The producer sister was very outgoing and good at smoothing things over. She said, "Oh, maybe Teacher Ning Meng will change her mind by then. We are here to discuss the script today. The first draft of the script is out, and we are here to show it to Teacher Ning Meng to see if there is anything we want to comment on."

After all, Ningmeng is the author of the original novel, and no one knows his work better than the author of the original novel.

The editor-in-chief immediately handed the completed draft of the script to Jiang Ning.

The writing of a script is completely different from the writing of a novel. A novel is filled with a lot of descriptions of background, characters, environment, etc., but in a script, almost all of them are just one sentence, and the script is full of dialogues that the actors need to memorize in full.

It takes time to read the script.

While Jiang Ning was reading the script carefully, the people sitting around him were all looking at Ning Meng quietly.

The ID card that Ning Meng used to sign the contract with them said she was nineteen years old, but she looked to be no more than sixteen or seventeen years old. The baby fat on her face had not yet completely faded, and her skin was cold and pale. When she lowered her brows to look at the notebook, her long eyelashes, as raven feathers, cast a shadow under her eyelids.

The director himself is a photography enthusiast and he always carries his camera with him when he goes out.

Sitting by the glass window at this moment, the early spring sunshine fell on Ning Meng, who was looking down at the script seriously. The picture was so beautiful that the director couldn't help but take out his camera and took a few pictures of Ning Meng.

It’s so good to shoot, so beautiful!

The atmosphere is full!

When Jiang Ning heard the click of the camera, she didn't move her posture, but raised her head and eyebrows and looked towards the camera. This glance was like an unstoppable sword, piercing Director Zhang's heart, making his heart skip a beat. However, her hands did not pause at all, and took two pictures.

This is the commander he is looking for!

The little girl is not very old, but why are her eyes so sharp and so imposing?

What kind of family and what kind of environment could produce a girl with such eyes!

Director Zhang was curious about Ning Meng.

By the way, if she doesn’t want to play the leading role, she can just play a female captain or a deputy captain of the Imperial Guard. Aren’t there many equally outstanding supporting actresses in the book? Each character is very distinctive. Oh, yes, that female centurion who is as powerful as a cold-blooded killer but only listens to the orders of the commander!

In the article, the commander-in-chief has not just one loyal subordinate, but a whole group of them. Which of her female subordinates is not loyal to the commander-in-chief? It's just that nowadays audiences love to watch scenes where several men fight for one woman, or several women fight for one man, so in the script, the roles of all the outstanding female subordinates were cut down to only two, and the rest all became background characters, such as the female guards who were fearless and killed all the scoundrels around them in order to protect the commander-in-chief, and then reported the situation to the commander-in-chief who was sitting calmly in the open-air sedan chair.

The screenwriter team added a lot of fancy love lines for the commander-in-chief, who originally had no love lines.

Jiang Ning was really embarrassed to see that the sober and career-minded heroine in her own writing was changed by the screenwriter of the TV series version of "The Imperial Guards" into a love-minded character who also liked the Crown Prince. For the sake of her beloved Crown Prince, she established the Imperial Guards, fought for the Crown Prince, and pacified the chaos in the martial arts world for him.

I have to say that the screenwriter is very talented. He made the plot logical and reasonable.

Seeing that Jiang Ning had finished reading the script, the chief screenwriter asked Ning Meng: "How is it?"

The lady in charge of the emotional line also looked at Jiang Ning with sparkling eyes: "Teacher Ning Meng, do you think there is anything else in the script that needs to be revised?"

Did you see the love line I wrote? Isn’t it exciting?

Who understands? These readers who like to read about love lines are really looking for sugar in the glass shards in the original novel. They are so obsessed with each CP. Sometimes they feel, "My love, Crown Prince!" Awww!

Sometimes I feel that this loyal subordinate who suffered a family misfortune but was saved by the commander-in-chief, who is cold and ruthless to outsiders but is loyal to the commander and is willing to die for him, is too cool!

When reading the original novel, the screenwriter liked him the most. When writing the love line, she wrote all the sweetness that she could not find in the original novel into the script. The more she wrote, the more it felt and the sweeter it became. Unknowingly, she turned an ordinary subordinate in the original novel into the official match of the commander-in-chief.

Of course, it certainly wouldn't work at the beginning. It was at the end that the commander finally accepted a loyal subordinate who had been waiting silently.

Jiang Ning: ...What the hell is this?

However, the screenwriter who was in charge of the love line was much better at writing love lines than her. She created a love line out of nothing and wrote it so sweetly that even she felt that it was not bad.

However, there was one setting that Jiang Ning sternly denied.

"The heroine is being trained as the heiress to a marquisate. Do you think that a marquisate's heiress could be such a love-brained person who only has men and love in her eyes?"

The term "love brain" did not exist at that time, but the director and screenwriters who came to confirm the first draft with Jiang Ning all understood this term inexplicably.

Jiang Ning said: "Given the heroine's intelligence and situation, she has friendship and uses for the crown prince, so there is absolutely no possibility of love, not to mention such an outrageous thing as secretly loving the crown prince. It completely destroys her character."

The screenwriter was stunned for a moment. When she was writing this plot, all she had in mind were the fans of the CP between the commander and the crown prince in the online forums. She wanted to make the plot reasonable, but did not consider the issue of the heroine's character.

The chief screenwriter was actually very satisfied with the adaptation of the script. He frowned and said, "Teacher Ning Meng, we know that your work is very popular and has good sales, but TV series and novels are different. We have to consider what the audience wants to watch."

Jiang Ning said, "I'm just talking about a logical problem. This kind of adaptation doesn't make sense logically. You know my works have high sales and I have a huge readership. They are not only readers, but will also be viewers in the future. If they knew that their favorite career-oriented heroine was adapted into a 24K love-brained pure idiot, what do you think their reaction would be?"

The chief screenwriter, who is a senior editor with a high status in the industry and has produced hit dramas, was a little unhappy to be criticized by such a young girl. He said with a sullen face: "Then how do you say to change it? If it's filmed like in your article, no one will watch it!"

Jiang Ning also knew that the audience in front of the TV was different from the readers of novels. Those who read novels were mainly young people and people who already had decent and leisurely jobs, while the audience was mainly housewives and cooks between the ages of a few years old and fifty or sixty years old. When they were at home, they turned on the TV and loved to watch all kinds of melodramatic dramas, especially the dramas about you love me, I love him, and he loves her, which they never get tired of watching.

Jiang Ning said, "Can't the Crown Prince have a crush on the heroine, but thinks she's a man and can't express his love for her, so he tries other men? His handsome guards and other handsome companions are all scared. We can add some funny plots here to make the tone of the TV series less serious. I believe the audience will like it more. The heroine's character will not be ruined, and the plot will be more interesting. What do you think?"

The original stern-faced chief screenwriter suddenly showed an interested look on his face and said, "Go on."

The screenwriter also took out her little notebook and looked at Jiang Ning with bright eyes, like a good student listening to the teacher in class.

Even the other male screenwriter who was in charge of the Jianghu plot took out a pen and paper and started taking notes.

They are all veterans in the industry, and they know very well what kind of plot attracts the audience. It’s just that they have created too many scripts, and their minds have become rigid. They only think about writing routines. Now that Ning Meng has reminded them of this, they feel that this plot is very different from many routine plots nowadays.

Especially as Ning Meng said, add some lighthearted plots with jokes. The audience doesn't like to watch serious plots with deep hatred and deep hatred. They prefer to watch something with a lighter atmosphere. The original novel of "Jin Yiwei" is originally a work mainly based on serious drama. If they write it like this in the script, it will seem dull.

Jiang Ning continued, "Although the Jinyiwei Commander I wrote is set in a fictional dynasty, we need to know which dynasty the Jinyiwei belonged to in real history. It was the military and political intelligence gathering agency of the Ming Dynasty. Even though it is a fictional martial arts world, the status of women in the novel is much higher than that of women in the real Ming Dynasty. But think about it, how low was the status of women in the real Ming Dynasty? It was a dynasty that restored the system of burying people alive with the emperor. When the emperor died, all the concubines had to be buried alive with him. This system also affected the people from the royal family, leading to the popular custom of the wife being buried alive with the husband. In such a bad social background, the heroine is already the heiress of the Marquis's Mansion. How stupid is she to expose her female body? And she also has emotional entanglements with four men?"

Jiang Ning said: "From the heroine's perspective, just like what I wrote in the novel, the second female lead accidentally discovered that the heroine was a girl, and the heroine's first reaction was to kill her!"

Jiang Ning said murderously, "She was not killed in the story, which also gave the second female lead a reasonable identity and background arrangement. The female lead needs a wife." She said, "If it wasn't for the plot, this female supporting role wouldn't have appeared, and the female lead wouldn't have made such a mistake at all."

The young lady who heard it nodded repeatedly: "Ah, yes, yes, yes!"

The editor-in-chief is able to become the chief screenwriter of a crew in this era, so of course he is talented. He himself graduated from the Chinese Department. Although he has not studied history books in detail like people majoring in history, he knows the general history. He nodded when he heard this.

He asked her: "So how do you think this love line should be written?"

In the script written by the screenwriter team, the crown prince is the true love, the white moonlight. His whole family was killed by the gangsters, but he was saved by the heroine and brought back for training. The loyal subordinate who has a blood feud is the official match for the heroine. In the script written by the screenwriters, the plot in which the female supporting role accidentally discovered that the heroine is a woman was arranged by the loyal subordinate, which is still very bloody. The heroine was injured, and he treated her wounds and accidentally untied the heroine's chest wrap...

Jiang Ning almost vomited blood when he saw this.

My Lord, the Commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard, has extraordinary martial arts skills, is the best in the world, number one in the world!

There are also heavy guards protecting her, each of whom is a master who has been trained with the golden finger and can fight against a hundred people alone. The security level of the guards is no less than that of the emperor. You even arranged for the heroine to be injured. Although it was to save her loyal subordinates, it is not reasonable!

Jiang Ning pointed to this paragraph in the script and said, "The heroine is the biggest boss in the whole story. How could she get hurt? This needs to be changed."

The screenwriter nodded, then said doubtfully, "This is what the plot requires. If it's not written this way, won't the emotional line be easy to develop?"

The chief screenwriter and the male screenwriter who were in charge of the overall court and martial arts framework and the general direction of the script also nodded and looked at Jiang Ning.

Jiang Ning said: "The heroine is a killer like Dongfang Bubai. She doesn't easily enter the martial arts world. Once she does, it must be a big occasion, the kind of killing indiscriminately. Her opponents are responsible for the killing, and she is responsible for the killing!"

It was the first time for several screenwriters to hear such a description, and the producer and director, as well, couldn't help but laugh.

Among the martial arts works that have been released so far, except for "The Legend of the White-Haired Witch", which is a martial arts drama with a female protagonist as the absolute protagonist, there is no other martial arts drama on the market that completely features a female protagonist. Even in "The Return of the Condor Heroes", "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", "The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber" and other dramas with important female roles, the women in them each have their own style, but they still exist as foils to the male protagonists. No matter how outstanding a woman is, she can't help but live for love, die for love, and live a life worse than death for love.

The main one is an auxiliary.

Jiang Ning said, "Let's do a reverse routine. Can't the male lead, male second, male third, and male fourth be impressed by the female lead's elegance and grace, live for her, die for her, and even live a life worse than death for her?"

The screenwriter nodded as she listened: "Okay, okay, okay!"

She loves to watch this kind of 'everyone loves the commander' plot, it's so cool!

The chief screenwriter thought about it and nodded in agreement, saying, "This is indeed in line with the fact that people in the martial arts world are fighting for the most beautiful woman in the martial arts world..."

Jiang Ning interrupted him and looked at him with dead eyes: "There is no most beautiful woman in the martial arts world, there is only the most beautiful commander in the world."

The chief screenwriter was a middle-aged man. He actually couldn't quite understand the love storyline. On the contrary, he could completely understand and accept what Jiang Ning said.

However, the screenwriter who was in charge of writing the love lines, after writing down a lot of things, made a bitter face: if she changed it like this, she would have to overturn and rewrite all the previous love lines, and she would have to write a lot more words!

Alas, it’s not easy to be a screenwriter, sighed my sister.

She took out a pen and wrote down the love story that Jiang Ning had mentioned. Anyway, the main plot was that the Crown Prince had a crush on the heroine and suspected that she liked men. She scared the men around her so much that they covered their clothes and ran away. She was responsible for being serious and funny.

As for the second male lead, he is a loyal and affectionate man with a miserable life. He lives and dies for the female lead, but the female lead is indifferent to his feelings and completely treats him as a subordinate.

Having written this far, the screenwriter in charge of the emotional line feels that she is about to fall in love with the second male lead. The second male lead is so good, she must not write it like this, she must help the second male lead!

The third male lead is a free and easy chivalrous knight, a good brother of the heroine, and has a vague relationship with her. He helps the heroine in her work and is her assistant. He is extremely talented and has no rivals among the younger generation in the martial arts world until he met the heroine. He often seeks out the heroine to spar with and drink with her, so he can be considered a friend who is relatively equal to the heroine in terms of mentality.

Unlike the male lead, who is both a teacher and a friend to the female lead and a subject of the male lead, he is not like the male second, who is a subordinate.

As for the fourth male leader of the Demon Cult's big boss.

Jiang Ning really couldn't understand why the heroine could become friends with the murderous cult boss.

Even if it was as the script said, when he started out in the martial arts world, he concealed his identity and became friends with the heroine and her friends, but you all wrote that he was the mastermind behind all this, the biggest villain BOSS, and his goal was to cause chaos in the martial arts world and unify it. What a good rivalry, but there happened to be a scene where the heroine was discovered to be a girl by the demon cult leader who had seen countless women, and he approached her, liked her, and finally became crazy about her, went crazy for her, and banged his head against the wall for her.

Jiang Ning was really confused: "I really don't know how you guys figured out that the heroine and the villain BOSS have a relationship."

The screenwriter insisted that there was a love line. If they couldn't ship the couple in the original novel, couldn't she ship them in the TV series? And with her professional screenwriting skills, she felt that the audience would love to read this love line.

The young lady said that Ning Meng objected to the female lead being love-brained, but it didn’t matter, the first, second, third, and fourth male leads were all love-brained anyway! (^o^)/~