Chapter 85
But regardless of whether Su Ning inspired Zhu Lan or not, this is the situation. And if you calculate carefully, the whole thing is indeed not the credit of Zhu Lan alone.
He Fan knew that Su Ning was looking for a new screenwriter. She was there when he was talking to Yan Kai.
He Fan saw with her own eyes that Mr. Su really wanted to do a good job on this project, and Ji Xue brought her to the crew to experience a different atmosphere.
In contrast, Han Weirong has been thinking about money all this time and has not thought about how to make the movie better.
When did he become like this?
He Fan felt that the people around him were beginning to become very unfamiliar.
She had always tied Han Weirong to her own artistic life. He Fan might not have been completely unaware that there was something wrong with the script, but denying Han Weirong would be tantamount to denying herself.
But she felt new things from other directors, actors and even Su Ning, the person in charge, and to some extent gradually separated Han Weirong from herself.
Zhu Lan seized this opportunity.
After all, she had invested half of the money. On the one hand, she really wanted to get the money back, but on the other hand, she was really angry - no one could stop her.
Even love-brained is not okay.
Now Han Weirong has finally escaped. When they broke up, he was guided and asked by Zhu Lan's people to say a lot of harsh words, which cut off this path. He Fan had felt something was wrong during this period, but now he has a feeling that the dust has settled.
But He Fan did not collapse as much as she thought, nor did she lose her support, because she remembered that she had promised Guo Baomu the next day, so she still showed up.
I have serious things to do, and after I calm down and think about it, I feel that breaking up is not a big deal.
And she went to the crew today to see the scene with the snow, and felt the consequences of being in love. The competition in the entertainment industry is fierce, and it is not much different from the ancient palace.
Zhu Lan felt that after this breakup, she had become more sober and there was some hope for this project.
Talent and ability are not always with people. Zhu Lan has seen too many cases. These are consumables. If He Fan continues to be entangled with Han Weirong, her original abilities and aura will be exhausted.
Zhu Lan said this, and also learned from Shu Miao about He Fan's current situation in the crew. His mood became better and better, and he said: "Boss Su, although we didn't work together successfully before, you have to admit that we have a pleasant cooperation this time, right?"
Su Ning: ...Is this actually considered cooperation?
But thinking about it carefully, although the process was a bit confusing, the ending was right and he couldn't deny it.
Zhu Lan then asked him, "How is Mr. Su finding the screenwriter? It's best to make a concerted effort now and not let those two start afresh."
Su Ning: "It has been expedited."
He will receive several today and will carefully select them. This period is too short to give a complete movie script, but it is enough to write down the direction in which the script will be expanded and a few highlights.
Zhu Lan: "Okay, I'll wait for good news from Mr. Su."
Su Ning and Shen Mingzheng went to Yaoshan to find Yan Kai this afternoon. Ji Xue's scenes have been almost shot and she is about to wrap up. After that, there are still some scenes to be shot for the protagonist and other supporting roles.
At this time, the set of "The Happy Event of the Imperial Hospital" had been almost completed. The main actors were all from the same cast, and the director was Yan Kai himself. As the boss, it was not the first time that he wrote, directed, and even acted in a film. Shen Mingzheng was afraid that he would not be familiar with it since it was his first time shooting a serious TV series, so he found several experienced assistant directors to assist him.
The script for "Happy Events in the Imperial Hospital" has been finalized for the first ten episodes, and the remaining half is being written while filming. Everything is proceeding as planned.
Although Yan Kai is very busy, he is very concerned about Su Ning and has given two different script proposals.
And they were all paper documents, because they had passed through Yan Kai's hands, and there were footnotes and some opinions written by him on them. This was his habit.
The screenwriter studio that Shen Mingzheng found also gave him two versions, and they sent him electronic versions.
On the way to Yaoshan, Su Ning first looked at the two electronic versions. The revisions were not bad, at least much better than the previous ones.
Both of these screenwriter studios follow the standard commercial film genre, and many of their works have had high box office success, so they added a lot of funny or light-hearted plots to the suspense, expanded the background of the mental hospital, and added many different kinds of mental patients.
Su Ning read it carefully and found that some of the funny clown characters were indeed written in an interesting way. There were differences between the two scripts, but the difference was not very big. The style of a commercial film was very obvious.
Then Su Ning arrived at Yaoshan, where he got the script from Yan Kai. After joining the crew, he only had time to go over both scripts when he arrived at the hotel at night.
The script category given by Yan Kai was not so easy, efficient and commercial. He understood He Fan's directing style and knew that Su Ning hoped the script would be suspenseful so as to be more in line with the director's style.
Therefore, these two books are different from the well-known studios. The screenwriters that Yan Kai contacted are obviously more niche, and they all expand on the murder cases in the original works.
The original text is too short, and the ending does not reveal whether the girl is the murderer or not. Whether she is a crazy killer or has other plans, all of these become blank suspense that can be developed on this basis.
Su Ning read them carefully and found that these two books really showed great effort.
One is a criminal investigation book, while the other one's script direction and key scenes are written in a brain-burning way. Su Ning didn't understand it when he read it for the first time. Some of the twists and turns are very obscure and difficult to see.
He read it carefully twice and also read the explanations and comments written by Yan Kai next to it, before he understood the whole story clearly.
The suspenseful atmosphere is indeed there, but it's a bit too tortuous.
These four scripts are not bad, especially the two given by Yan Kai. Although he is not a well-known screenwriter, his style is just a little niche. He still has some skills and is really attentive.
After watching it, Su Ning had the idea of cooperating. In addition to He Fan, Guangying Entertainment and Shen's Pictures have many projects to launch in the future.
But Shen Mingzheng was watching his expression and knew what Su Ning was thinking at a glance.
"What's wrong? Are you not satisfied with all this?" he asked. "Is there something wrong?"
Su Ning neither nodded nor shook his head. He handed him the notebook and said, "Take a look."
With so many options given, if he couldn't choose any of them, Su Ning would feel that he was a bit too picky as the client.
He planned to choose the best one from them, modify it a little and show it to He Fan.
I thought so in my heart, but Su Ning always felt that something was missing.
So he waited to see Shen Mingzheng's opinion.
But after reading it, Shen Mingzheng's opinion was similar to Su Ning's.
The first one Yan Kai gave was the best one. The suspense and other plots were relatively well-set, and it was the most balanced one. This was also the one Yan Kai strongly recommended. The opinions of several people were quite consistent on this point, so Shen Mingzheng said: "Revise it again."
But we may have to speed up, as the filming on Jixue is about to be completed, and He Fan can't delay too long.
But when he reached out to hand the notebook to Su Ning, he happened to turn to the last page of the script, and then saw something in the gap in the middle of the folder.
The folder used by Yan Kai was purchased and used by Yan Kai Studio. The cover was a little thick, and there were too many handwritten contents by Yan Kai in some places, with many sticky notes sandwiched in the middle, so papers were sandwiched between papers, and Shen Mingzheng saw something strange in it.
He pulled it out and saw a small QR code on it. Shen Mingzheng was surprised: "What is this? Is it an Easter egg in the script?"
Su Ning was also stunned for a moment. He took out his mobile phone and scanned the QR code, and a new document appeared.
He only took a glance and understood: "This is a script, a new script outline."
It's different from all the previous ones.
The original title was "Eyes", and the previous script outlines had not changed the name for the time being, but this script was changed, and its name is now "No Disease".
There was no time to think about why the script was included, Su Ning had already opened it and read it first.
If the first two categories focus on commercialization and expand the background of the mental hospital, and the other focuses on suspense and murder and expands the event of the case, then this script expands the characters of the original work and is not bound by the plot of the original work.
——The male protagonist is a rookie with a strong sense of justice, and the "weird" female protagonist whose hands are stained with blood and whose mental illness is unclear. The plot is indeed a suspenseful one, and other characters in the mental hospital are also involved, but the style is very different.
The male protagonist, who had just graduated from college, entered a mental hospital for an interview. He brought a camera with him and planned to make a short documentary.
On the surface, many of the patients in this famous mental hospital in the city do behave abnormally, including suffering from all kinds of strange and bizarre mental illnesses, but pure nonsense cannot attract attention, and the male protagonist feels that this is not enough.
After some investigation, he found a closed area in the hospital, where there were obviously other patients, but the mental hospital refused to let him in to investigate. Some patients were even scared when they heard about that place. Judging from the scene and decoration, it was much more upscale than other wards.
In order to shoot video footage, the male protagonist sneaked in, and then he met the female protagonist, a very beautiful and lovely girl who could easily make people fall in love at first sight.
This paragraph uses the content of the original work.
The heroine told him that she was not sick and that this area was used to detain those who were not sick but were forcibly sent in. It was a conspiracy of the hospital. She hoped that he could find the truth and rescue herself.
At this time, the male protagonist couldn't help but think of a classic question about mental hospitals: "If a person is a normal person, how can he prove that he is not sick in a mental hospital?"
However, the male protagonist who sneaked in was still discovered. A doctor in the hospital took him out and warned him to get out quickly, especially not to believe anything the patients living here said, as they were all saying it to deceive him.
The reason why there is a special ward is that most of the patients have criminal cases. Because they are mentally ill, they are not criminally responsible, so they can only be kept here for custody. They are advised not to think too much and stay as far away from here as possible.
But what the doctor said was inconsistent with the actual situation. The male protagonist did find clues of transactions between the hospital and outsiders, and some patients held in special areas looked much more normal than those outside.
He felt that this matter was not that simple. In order to find out the truth and to distinguish whether these people detained in the special ward were sick or not, and whether the murders they committed were true or false, or perhaps because he wanted to see the girl he liked, the male protagonist still took the risk and found an opportunity to meet the female protagonist who was imprisoned there, and also met other people in the special ward.
The story unfolds in this contradiction between being sick and not being sick. The highlight inserted in the middle of the synopsis is the conflicting dialogue between the hero and heroine and the doctor.
"A mentally ill person cannot prove that he is a normal person here, so what if a normal person pretends to be a mentally ill person?"
The male protagonist wondered: "But what good is there in pretending to be mentally ill?"
"There are so many benefits," the hostess laughed, "so many."
Many suspense and crime films are based on real social events, which not only resonate with the public, but the real events are also plots that no one can imagine.
The original novel is too short, so there is no such thing, but this book does have it, which is an additional plot.
A mentally ill person is not criminally responsible for injuring others when he is ill. Some time ago, there was news about an innocent girl who was seriously injured by a knife. The perpetrator did not bear responsibility because he had a mental illness certificate provided by the hospital. This incident did trigger widespread discussion. Sympathy for the victim cannot make up for her pain.
As a result, some mentally ill people want to pretend to be normal people, and some normal people want to pretend to be mentally ill in order to escape responsibility.
This is a hidden line in the script, and it is also the real truth. Su Ning will know it when he reads later.
The male protagonist later gradually discovered that some people in the special hospital had actually committed crimes. One of them seriously injured an innocent girl, causing her to go blind and have cuts on her body. However, he had a strong background, and his family forged a mental illness record and sent him here on the grounds of mental illness.
The environment in the special ward is much better than that in prison. They will release him after a few years when the storm has passed. The hospital accepted bribes privately to accomplish this. This is not the first time such a thing has happened.
In the previous plot, the audience couldn't tell whether the heroine was sick or not. In fact, she disguised her identity with the help of a doctor based on a case many years ago.
The doctor wanted to use the righteous male protagonist to investigate the hospital, find evidence and make it public, so he seemed to be blocking the investigation, but in fact he slowly left behind contradictions and clues.
The heroine is the injured girl's younger sister. Because of an accident in their childhood, the two lived separately, but they have always been in contact. This sister is very important to her. In order to take revenge, she took the initiative to sneak into the hospital.
To some extent, all three people are just, and they want to make the criminals pay the price, but their paths are slightly different. The male protagonist is absolutely just, the doctor is neutrally just, and the female protagonist is a completely chaotic justice.
She is not really sick, but she is indeed a little crazy just like in the original book.
When the male protagonist was unexpectedly blocked in his search for evidence, she was planning revenge.
There is a major section in the middle that is written for her.
"Let us, the mentally ill, solve the problem," she laughed, "I still have a way to make him pay the price."
She almost succeeds and is about to replicate the previous murder and gouge out the victim's eyes with a pair of scissors.
But fortunately, the male protagonist pulled her back at the critical moment.
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