Chapter 210 [Scripted plot, enter with caution]
Jiang Ning saw that Producer Li called her Teacher Ning Meng, and hurriedly said, "Teacher Li, you can just call me Ning Meng." Then he looked at the several young seniors who came to pick up Producer Li, and said with a smile, "You guys should be arranged by the school to welcome Teacher Li, right? I am Jiang Ning, hello."
There is no habit of addressing people as "you" here and "you" there in the south, and people just call each other "you". But when Jiang Ning arrived in the north, especially in Beijing, he found that there were strict rules for addressing people as "you" here and "you" there in class. Jiang Ning was not used to it, but he also admired the teacher's high self-cultivation. Not every teacher can address students as "you".
Several seniors were still shocked by Director Li's "Teacher Ning Meng". When they saw the junior sister walking over, they were still very surprised and a little bit unbelievable. This junior sister in front of them was actually Ning Meng?
He couldn't help but think of a rumor on the Internet, saying that the mastermind behind Lemon Meng was actually a middle-aged man, a police officer within the system. Some experts also said that "Lemon Meng" was actually a team and could not be just one person.
When the president of the literature club saw Ning Meng at this time, he immediately believed what the expert said.
The truth is that this junior sister looks a little young, and doesn't seem like the type of person who can write with such mature writing skills and such meticulous court arrangements. No matter the court ups and downs in "The Great Song Dynasty", the detachment and freedom in "White Snake's Cultivation of Immortality", or the court struggles in "The Commander of the Imperial Guards", they are not something that a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl can write. "Ningmeng" has been writing works for more than three years. How old is this junior sister in front of me? So did she start writing "The Great Song" when she was fourteen or fifteen years old?
But this junior sister in front of me is really beautiful. No wonder the team behind her attributes all these works to her. Are they trying to create a reputation for her as a beautiful and academic writer? Is this an attempt to replicate Meng Yin, who was once known as the most beautiful and talented woman in Tainan?
The president of the literature club thought so and began to look at the junior sister in front of him. He found that this junior sister named "Jiang Ning" really had the excellent conditions to become a "beautiful writer".
Although she had a plain face and was wearing a black down jacket for early winter, her fair face looked even more rosy and fair against the black down jacket.
Her current height has exceeded 1.68 meters from her previous life and has grown to 1.71 meters. It is estimated that she can grow taller. Although she is tall, her face is tender. She probably eats a lot in this life. Although she is not fat, there is still some baby fat on her fair face, making her look very young.
People of this generation generally start school late, with many going to college at the age of 20, and some even later, at the age of 21 or 22. Those who were able to become the president and core members of the May Fourth Literary Society, in addition to being very familiar with daily politics, were all senior students, the youngest being 21 or 22, and the oldest 22 or 23. Both in terms of temperament and appearance, they looked much older than Jiang Ning.
They had long wanted to recruit Ning Meng to join the May Fourth Literary Society, and had screened all the students from Class of 1997 who had joined the student union and clubs, but had not discovered who Ning Meng was. They had also speculated whether Ning Meng was one of the talented people who had set up their own unofficial literary club.
But those talented people who couldn't stand the fact that the May Fourth Literary Society treated student associations as politics went to ask, and no, they themselves are still readers of "Ningmeng".
Of course, all the people they asked were liberal arts students.
Who would have thought that such a famous young writer would be a pure science student in the School of Mathematics? Still such a young girl.
No matter how many thoughts were in their heads, on the surface they were very enthusiastic, and quickly shouted with a puzzled look: "Ning Meng...Teacher?"
The temperature in Beijing suddenly dropped to cold in early November. Jiang Ning put his hands in the pockets of his coat, nodded at them casually, and said with a smile: "Hello, senior brother."
"Hello, hello. I didn't expect that the teacher Ning Meng, who we have been looking for for a long time, is actually my junior sister. I knew before that Ning Meng is also an alumnus of our Beijing University. We have been looking for my junior sister for a long time. Today, we finally see her in person." The president of the literature club had a warm smile on his face: "We have all read my junior sister's masterpieces. The subject matter of each work is very novel. I like "The Years When I Was a White Snake Cultivator" very much."
Then he looked at Producer Li and his team and asked the question he wanted to ask very naturally: "I heard from the teacher at school that you are here to adapt the script of White Snake into a TV series?"
Although Producer Li is also in the system, he is, after all, a literati who started out as a screenwriter. Although there are some people in this circle who are very good at scheming, most of them still have some of the literati's pride and arrogance.
He looked at the time on his watch and said, "Teacher Ning Meng, let's go in first."
The president of the literature club didn't mind not getting an answer. The vice president next to him also smiled and said, "Please come this way. We have prepared a heated room for you in advance."
The past two years have been cold winters, so the heating in Beijing was turned on half a month earlier than the original November 15th. Beijing University also just started supplying heating two days ago.
But not every classroom has heating, and some classrooms do not even have heating.
By saying this, they also expressed their importance to Producer Li.
When they were leading Producer Li and the others to the 'Script Study Session' classroom arranged for them by the school, several people were looking at Jiang Ning curiously.
Although Jiang Ning was somewhat famous among the sophomores and juniors, her fame was mostly spread in the School of Mathematics or the several professional departments where she attended classes as an auditor, but not in the Department of Liberal Arts. She herself was a liberal arts student in her previous life and usually liked to read. In addition to writing, reading was her second spiritual food. From childhood to adulthood, she had to spend at least half an hour reading every day. If she didn't read for a day, she felt like she was not full mentally, and always felt that something was wrong and that something was undone.
For her, reading is a way to rest.
She has read a lot of books, and in this life she focuses all her energy on science and other subjects that she is interested in but did not have the opportunity to study in her previous life. Except for law and economics courses, almost all other courses she audited were science courses.
Therefore, she is not well-known in liberal arts colleges. Usually, those who are famous in liberal arts colleges are almost all active student union members like the president of the literature club who are good at writing poems and articles and have won many awards. These people are the celebrities of the school. As for the volunteer friends who went to the disaster area with Jiang Ning to provide relief, most of them are from science colleges.
So at this time, the president of the literature club began to inquire which department Jiang Ning was from.
They originally thought that Jiang Ning must be from the liberal arts department. Even if she wanted to create a "beautiful writer" persona, the "beautiful writer" herself must have a solid foundation, otherwise it would be easy to fail. Unexpectedly, Jiang Ning looked at them with a smile and replied, "I'm from the School of Mathematics."
"Uh..." The president of the literature club was stuck for a moment. They knew a few people from the Department of Physics and the Department of Astronomy, but they didn't know anyone from the School of Mathematics. However, this did not affect his smile at all. He invited her sincerely, "Junior sister, you have published so many works. I think you love literature very much. Why don't you join our literature club? Our May Fourth Literature Club is the only official literature club in Peking University. Junior sister should have joined it earlier. With your talent, you will definitely be the elite backbone of our club. With your literary style and influence, you are worthy of being the next president of the literature club."
He was not exaggerating. A literary society mainly relies on works to speak. Even those who are good at scheming and try to get impressive awards like dividing a cake for themselves need to have works as a prerequisite. However, none of these works have the influence of Jiang Ning, who has not only been made into movies and TV series, but has also cooperated with CCTV (Note: real names in real life cannot be used in novels. The original names have been harmonized, not for the purpose of making people laugh).
His eyes flashed, their color darkened, and the smile on his face became more genuine.
If he could get Jiang Ning to join their literary club, he could also get to know more people from CCTV through Jiang Ning.
He looked up and gave Producer Li a gentle smile.
Producer Li is in his early forties. When he was young, he went to the countryside as an educated youth. He was a member of the famous third batch of college students who were the first to be admitted to college after the resumption of the college entrance examination. He also works in a place like CCTV. Although he is a screenwriter by profession, he has met countless people. For a young man like the president of the literature club, he can see through his thoughts at a glance.
However, as a man of literary origin and a native of Beijing, he has talent and connections. His years in the system have not worn away his pride as a man of literature, but have made his character even more upright. He likes talented young people, but dislikes those who are good at scheming.
This would remind him of the uncomfortable experiences he had with some of the people he had met in the workplace over the years.
But he didn't show anything, and even had a faint and gentle smile on his face. He followed these young people with a slightly cold attitude and entered a warm classroom with heating on.
It's more like a conference room than a classroom. It's probably where the members of the literature club usually hold meetings to discuss issues. Several tables are put together and covered with a red velvet cloth to form a large conference table. On the table are letter paper and pens printed with the words "Capital University", as well as some white tea cups. In addition to a circle of chairs placed around the conference table, there is also a circle of chairs placed against the wall at the outermost edge of the conference table, which seems to be where the members of the literature club usually sit during meetings.
There is a blackboard, podium, chalk and other things in front of the classroom.
Producer Li and others were quite satisfied with this classroom. They nodded to the head of the literature club and said, "That's thoughtful."
He had originally agreed with the head of the School of Mathematics to follow Jiang Ning to the School of Mathematics, but now he was assigned to the Literature Society.
He didn't say anything, took out the notebook and pen he brought with him and put them on the table, took off his coat and said, "Then let's get started."
The president of the literature club enthusiastically poured them the tea that had been prepared long ago, then they found a seat and sat down, taking out paper and pen, as if they were attending the class to learn.
Producer Li didn't care about the internal script seminar of their "White Snake" crew, and these students were attending. After all, he still had to give face to Peking University. He basically knew all the head teachers of the liberal arts department of Peking University. Many of them were old friends of the China Writers Association. They often met each other. Since Peking University arranged these young students to come and audit and study, he also knew what it meant. He said to the two screenwriters Yuan Feng and Tang Jiang across from him: "Have you finished writing the detailed outline of the script given to you before? If you have, take it out and let everyone have a look."
Of course, both Yuan Feng and Tang Jiang have finished writing.
Although one of them received the career-related plot and the other received the romance-related plot, so far, the identities of the two screenwriters in this crew are equal, with no distinction between the primary and the secondary.
People are not divided into primary and secondary roles, but scripts are.
The dispute between the two screenwriters over the main emotional line and the main career line is not only about the emotional and career development of the plot, but also about the priority of their roles in the script of this drama.
If the focus is on the love line, then it is obvious that Yuan Feng is the main screenwriter. If the focus is on the career line, then Tang Jiang is the main screenwriter.
Both of them are very talented people who are able to work for CCTV, and they naturally put a lot of thought into the script.
They took themselves a week to write a detailed outline of their respective main plots, and a copy of part of the script text, and distributed it to producer Li, the director, Jiang Ning and others.
Because they had not considered that there would be other people sitting in, they only prepared five copies of the script.
Although the president of the literature club and his friends also wanted to see it, and even wanted to ask him to help make a few copies, after seeing that several people took the script and read the first draft quietly, he suppressed his desire and waited for them with a smile.
In fact, all the talented people present here think that, isn’t this just a script? Give it to them, and they will write, and write better.
Who among these people who come from literary societies hasn’t written an article or a play? Not to mention that the TV dramas broadcast on television are all popular novels.
Although Jiang Ning's works are widely circulated and have high sales, they are still in the category of popular novels.
For these people, their main claim is that what they write is the best and they won’t admit defeat to anyone else!
The scripts and outlines of the two screenwriters were all handwritten, and their handwriting was very beautiful. Teacher Yuan Feng's handwriting was more delicate, while Teacher Tang Jiang's handwriting was a little more sloppy, but they were all recognizable.
At present, this first draft is just a detailed outline of the general plot and part of the script. After receiving the scripts from the two screenwriters, Producer Li asked Jiang Ning: "Friend Ning Meng, how is your script for the flood going?"
Although the rule in their circle is to call someone "teacher", considering his age and experience working at CCTV, it is not appropriate to keep calling Jiang Ning "teacher". So when Jiang Ning said that they don't need to call her teacher, but to call her Ning Meng directly, Producer Li simply called her "Ning Meng little friend" to show his closeness.
Just calling him 'Ning Meng' made him look like a subordinate, which not only sounded like an order of course, but also seemed disrespectful in his attitude.
He himself graduated from Beijing Normal University. After learning about Ning Meng's resume, he admired this talented and kind girl very much.
Jiang Ning had already prepared his own script, which included not only the specific part about the flood, but also a detailed outline of the entire plot starting from the first episode. He printed it out and gave it to producer Li, the director, and the two screenwriters.
Because hers was typed out on a computer and printed out, it was easier and simpler to read than the handwritten scripts of the two screenwriters, and not as strenuous as reading Teacher Tang Jiang's.
Producer Li and the two screenwriters were very surprised when they saw Jiang Ning's entire script outline.
Jiang Ning smiled and explained, "I have no experience in writing scripts before. It would be a bit difficult to write only the flood part without context. So I put myself in the role of the audience and sorted out the previous plots. The teachers can just take a look at it as a reference."
After all, she was the original author of the novel, and probably no one knew the novel's plot better than her. Her script outline was indeed of some reference value to the two screenwriters, Yuan Feng and Tang Jiang, so they all took the script and started to read it.
The first things they read were the scripts written by the two main screenwriters.
Yuan Feng's script is mainly based on the emotional line. The writing style is impeccable, but there is nothing particularly outstanding in the plot. Even the general plot direction and details are basically the same as "White Snake". At the beginning of the text, it is a little medicine boy carrying a medicine box who saves the White Snake while collecting herbs. In the second scene, the White Snake has successfully practiced, and after counting on her fingers, she finds that she still has a life-saving grace to repay, so she has to go down the mountain to repay the grace in order to complete her merit.
After that, he went down the mountain and met a big black carp, and subdued the little black carp...
Well, the main plot is almost the same as White Snake.
Producer Li and the director put down Yuan Feng's first draft and went to look at screenwriter Tang Jiang's first draft.
The script written by screenwriter Tang Jiang is said to be "The Legend of White Snake", but it is more like a martial arts script that incorporates the plot of the immortal world in the novel.
At the beginning, she is a lively and cute little white snake who has made great progress in her cultivation on the fairy mountain. However, her master, the Bodhisattva Guanyin, said that she has some unfinished earthly ties and must go down the mountain to gain experience. Only after completing the experience can she complete her merits and ascend to heaven on a certain day.
As for the content of her experience, Guanyin Bodhisattva had originally calculated that she had a love tribulation to overcome, and she was going down the mountain to overcome it, but the little white snake's world only existed for cultivating immortals, and she naively thought that it was just an experience, so she went down the mountain happily.
The first thing the little white snake did after going down the mountain was to encounter a huge black carp that caused the river water to swell rapidly. Seeing that the river water was going to rise further and would cause a flood, the little white snake, who was going down the mountain for experience for the first time, immediately beat the huge black carp and tamed it, naming it Xiaoqing.
This time, the training of one demon turned into that of two demons, and their first stop when they went down the mountain was Lin'an City.
Screenwriter Tang Jiang chose a very clever angle, beautifying the little white snake in the original work into a simple and innocent young girl. The two beautiful little demons were completely ignorant of all the rules of the world, which created a lot of jokes. They also got to know Xu Xian, a young man who was studying medicine in a clinic in Lin'an City.
Xu Xian fell in love with the beautiful little white snake at first sight, and often followed the two girls with a medicine box on his back to cure illnesses and save lives. Because the two girls were demons, they saw many demons harming people in the world, so they subdued various demons along the way, and killed those that they could not subdue. In this way, they settled down in the city of Lin'an.
Just when they said that all the little demons around Lin'an City had been subdued and recruited, Master Fahai, the eminent monk from Lingyin Temple in Lin'an City, returned from his tour.
He had been catching monsters outside with two disciples. They thought that since there was Lingyin Temple in Lin'an City, no monster would dare to come to Lin'an City. However, before they even entered the city, they saw the monster aura swirling in the sky above Lin'an City from afar. Fahai was shocked!
Judging from the evil aura, it is at least a thousand-year-old monster! So he took his two apprentices and hurried to Lin'an city. He originally thought that he would see a tragic scene of people living in misery after being ravaged by monsters, but he did not expect that the people in the city were happy, singing and dancing, and there was nothing wrong.
They were puzzled, so they went to investigate, and finally found two innocent and lively stunningly beautiful girls who did not hide their true colors at all and who were out of tune with the people around them.
After reading the scripts written by screenwriters Yuan Feng and Tang Jiang, they started reading Ningmeng's.
Originally, the two main screenwriters were reading each other's scripts. After reading screenwriter Tang Jiang's script, screenwriter Yuan Feng fell silent. After reading Jiang Ning's script, he became even more silent.
When screenwriter Tang Jiang saw the beginning of Jiang Ning's script, he burst out laughing, and then producer Li and the others also laughed.
The president and members of the literature club who were sitting nearby had no idea what they were laughing at. They felt extremely curious as to what was written on the scripts in their hands.
Producer Li held the script in his hand and said to Director Zhang, Yuan and Tang, the two screenwriters: "I said Ning Meng is a genius, right? Look at this plot. How could an ordinary person think of writing about Little White Snake from such an angle, and the writing style and words are so humorous!"
Screenwriter Yuan Feng, who had been silent after reading Tang Jiang's script, couldn't help but laugh after hearing this and said, "Xiao Jiang's ideas are indeed very different."
They are normal people, who could have imagined that the little white snake could eat too much Emperor's Liquid and not digest it, and it ate itself until only its belly was round, with its tail and head pointed, like a naked little white turtle!
Screenwriter Tang Jiang also smiled softly and said, "Although the plot is interesting, it is still difficult to make it into a TV series with the current special effects technology."
"What's the big deal?" Producer Li really liked Jiang Ning's version of the script and said to Jiang Ning, "Just write it. I'll hand it over to the animation team when you're done."
The director also looked up from the script and said with a smile: "Director Li is right. It is a little difficult to make Xiao Jiang's script into a TV series, but it should be no problem to make it into an animation. You know what, I have pictures in my mind just by looking at the text. It is not impossible to make it into a TV series, but we have to borrow the teachers who did the makeup and styling for the crew of Journey to the West."
Producer Li was only thinking about the special effects of the little white turtle, and forgot about the makeup artists of the "Journey to the West" crew. He smiled and said to Jiang Ning: "Well, I'll keep your script for you, and I'll see if there's a chance to release it to you later."
Because the protagonist in Jiang Ning's script turns into a child, Producer Li suddenly remembered last year's popular comedy TV series with children as the protagonists, "The Happy Little Monk and the Wordless Book". This drama could be said to be a dark horse in TV dramas last year. In the first half of the year, "The Return of the Condor Heroes" was a huge hit, and in the second half, "The Happy Little Monk" was a huge hit.
"Happy Little Monk" had a skyrocketing viewership rating because the first part "The Wordless Book" was so popular. As far as producer Li knows, the second part of the drama is now being filmed and will probably be broadcast during the winter vacation at the end of the year.
As Producer Li read the script written by Jiang Ning, he quickly considered the possibility of making it into a children's play. The more he read, the more interested he found the script.
Although this script is not suitable for the "Legend of White Snake" they are currently filming, it is very suitable for being made into a children's drama similar to "Happy Little Monk".
In Jiang Ning's original timeline, more than half of CCTV's hit children's dramas were produced by Producer Li.
It can be said that his sensitivity in children's drama is as high as his achievements in adult TV series.
Jiang Ning had never imagined that just by writing the script for the "Flood" section and going through the detailed outline of the entire script, she would also obtain the copyrights of CCTV's animation and children's drama.
The president and members of the literature club who were sitting around were so curious that they wanted to see what was written on the script provided by Jiang Ning. How come in less than an hour, something written by this little junior sister was picked up by Director Li of CCTV?
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